The evolution of Sasanid raised wings to arabesque formation (A case study of plaster arrays from Sassanid to the Islamic Middle Ages)

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1 University(shahid)

2 ART SHAHID UNIVERSITY

10.22084/nb.2023.27432.2555

Abstract

The sequence of a role in nations prehistoric and historical periods indicates the priority of the given role in their culture and civilization. Consistently, the roles in the historical periods evolve, change or transform so as not to have apparent affinity with their original structure but they often retain their vital elements. To preserve these elements, motifs composed of symbols and signs are often combined and synthesize with each other and regenerate with a new language in a new historical period. Opened wings are one of the most frequent motifs combined of three valuable symbols of goat horns, life trees and wings (birds) in ancient Iran and have been used in various ways in Iranian artworks from prehistory up to the end of the Sassanid period, and after the arrival of Islam such as Many components of Sasanian arts subsist on. In the Islamic era, the arabesque role emerged gradually and is repeated and alternated in Islamic arts. There are many topics have been raised regarding Islamic roots in the art of ancient Iran and Arabia (Arabesque), Anatolia and even East Asia or its invention in the Islamic period, but as one of the most important Islamic motifs they have not mentioned how it was formed. Answer to questions related to the role of open wings cured in the Sassanid period and continued to evolve after the arrival of Islam as well as the sequence ultimately led to arabesque in Islamic art are prominent concerns going to be addressed in this article. This research is aimed to investigate the development and the evolution of the role of open wings from Sasanian to Middle Islamic period. The results of this research carried out in a descriptive and analytical method is an arabesque formation of the transformation and evolution of the Sasanian open wing role.

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pazhoheshha-ye Bastan shenasi Iran

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript
Available Online from 26 October 2023

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