Qajar art

Mihr 'Ali (Iranian, active ca. 1800–1830). Portrait of Fath Ali Shah Qajar, 1815. Brooklyn Museum
Young mukhanna and girl, early Qajar Iran
Qajar dynasty reliefs in Tangeh Savashi, of the Fath Ali Shah era

Qajar art was the architecture, paintings, and other art forms produced under the Qajar dynasty, which lasted from 1781 to 1925 in Iran (Persia).

The boom in artistic expression that occurred during the Qajar era was a side effect of the period of relative peace that accompanied the rule of Agha Muhammad Khan and his descendants. With his ascension, the bloody turmoil that had been the 18th century in Persia came to a close and made it possible for peacetime arts to again flourish.


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