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MINOR ART UNDER SAFAVIDS
The Safavids School of Paintings
In many respect, the Safavids were the heir of brilliant artistic traditional of Timurid of court-at Hirat in Khurasan, Safavid paintings were outstanding in period of Bihzad and many others courts painters of Shah Abbas. Hirat school of painting was very famous artistic and minor art activities. Bihzad and a group of Artist established the Tabriz school of painting under Shah Ismail. During the reign of Shah Tahmas, the various kinds of minor arts and miniature painting were brought to ultimate pitch of action especially art of book and miniature painting as tough the climax of art. In Shah

• Abbas calligraphic pattern and minor arts displayed a great perfection. Abbas patronage of artists was on an extensive scale and he seems to have and had a worn human relationship with his Artist AM Raza was famous painters.

Masjid-i-Shah in Isfahan, the Masjid-i-Sheikh Lutfullah and the dome after the tombs and the Shrine of the Imam Raza at Mashad were the great symbolic feature of painting, the School half of the tenth/sixteenth century saw the rise to eminence of another painter, Ustad Muhammad), son and pupil of Sultan Muhammad the miniatures painted by this great artist reveal an enchanting style and a sense of composition unprecedented in the history of Muslim painting. He topic his subjects from everyday life and imparted an inimitable rhythm to all the details of his figures. Trees, wild and tamed animals, men and women enter his paintings and become immortally and irrepressibly alive.
On the other side many manuscripts were the hidden treasure of painting. The paintings in Safavid period was an essential part of

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architecture and cloth industry the royal places and shrine, mosques, were fully decorated with various type of painting and account of hunting and war scene. Shah Abbas was a great patron of painting an artistic activities in Safavids Iran.’