Archive Sections: letters | music | index | features | photos | arts/lit | satire Find Iranian singles today!
Arts

 

Click on image to see next

Click on image to see next

Paintings

(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10)

Sculptures

(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) (13) (14) (15)

The master
Paintings & sculptures of Abolhassan Khan Sadighi

July 7, 2005
iranian.com

The prominent Iranian painter and sculptor Master Abolhassan Khan Sadighi was born in the Odlaydjan area of Tehran in 1894.  At the age of seven he went to the Aghdassieh school which was established by Sa'id al-Olamai Laridjani, one of the founders of the modern schools in Iran.  Influenced by his family's encouragement, he entered the Alliance school after finishing his primary education.  There, while learning various subjects, he instinctly was attracted to painting and drawing without any teacher or guidance.  Though still unskilled and without experience, his first paintings and drawings awed the school officials, his parents, and his relatives >>>Full text

COMMENT
For letters section

RELATED
sadighi.com

Book of the day
mage.com

Shahnameh
Three volume box set of the Persian Book of Kings
Translated by Dick Davis

© Copyright 1995-2013, Iranian LLC.   |    User Agreement and Privacy Policy   |    Rights and Permissions