Indepth Arts News:
"7000 YEARS OF PERSIAN ART: Masterpieces from the Iranian National Museum, Teheran"
2000-11-22 until 2001-03-25
Kunsthistorisches Museum
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From November 22, 2000, the Kunsthistorisches
Museum will present 180 masterpieces spanning
seven thousand years of Iranian art from the
collections of the Iranian National Museum in
Teheran. It will be the first time since the Iranian
Revolution of 1979 that these treasures can be
admired abroad. Some of the exhibits on show in
Vienna have never been presented to the public
before. The exhibition will cover a wide period and
include clay figures from the 7th millennium BC as
well as early Islamic painted ceramic vessels from
the 10th century AD.
Prehistoric Iranian ceramics will form one of the
numerous highlights of the exhibition. The various
shapes and decorations document a varied and
fascinating spectrum of early artistic creation. The
magnificent gold and silver vessels of the
Archamenisch great kings (558-330 BC) mark
another highlight. These rulers of the first empire in
history amassed incredible wealth in the treasuries
of their palaces in Susa and Persepolis. Alexander
the Great’s (336-323 BC) conquest of Persia and the
Selucid kings who succeeded him mark the
beginning of increasing Greek influences in Iranian
artistic production. This is also true for work produced
under the second great Iranian dynasty, the
Arsakiden (247 BC to AD 224). In the exhibition we
will proudly present a selection of objects sculpture,
ceramics, glass dating from this still somewhat
elusive period of Iranian art history that have never
been on show before. The rule of the Sassaniden
dynasty (224 - 641) saw the re-emergence of
traditional Iranian values. Sassanidisch art
developed from classical antiquity to the Middle Ages,
and its pictorial and decorational language is still
present in the art of the Arab conquerors, dominated
by the new religion of Islam. From the numerous
Sassanidisch works of art on show, the magnificently
decorated silver vessels should be singled out. The
elaborate stucco decorations from Sassanidisch
palaces are a further highlight. Some of these
architectural decorations from a Sassanidisch
mansion in south-western Iran will be on show for
the first time in Vienna. And finally, the exhibition will
present early Islamic silver, ceramic and glass
vessels. They document both the continued influence
of Sassanidisch art and new forms and decorations
that were to lead to an Islamic pictorial language.
IMAGE:
Lion Rhyton
Ecbatana (Hamadan, west-central Iran)
500-450 BC
Teheran, National Museum
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