Rahpooye Honar-Ha-Ye Tajassomi

Rahpooye Honar-Ha-Ye Tajassomi

The Depiction of Rostam's Battle with Diospid in the Timurid and Safavid Schools with the Approach of Narratology

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
maryam feizollahi 1
Ali Moradkhani 2
ALHREAZA ATTAARI 3
1 Arts, Humanities, Islamic Azad University, North Tehran Branch
2 Associate Professor and Faculty Member of Islamic Azad University, North Tehran Branch.
3 Art. Handicrafts College. Isfahan Art University
10.22034/ra.2024.1971310.1260
Abstract
Narratology has a wide concept that its expansion in the field of image makes it possible to obtain results from the comparison of text and image as two different procedures. The image has an expressive nature and is independent of the text, which makes it necessary to recognize and understand the image in matching with the literary text. to do "Battle of Rostam and the White Devil" is one of the events of Ferdowsi's Shahnameh, which is narrated in the form of an epic work within the framework of Iranian culture, and later depicted in different schools of painting such as the Timurid and Safavid schools. Ferdowsi's Shahnameh is one of the enduring literary collections that portrays a certain tableau of cosmological epistemology in the form of epic narratives, and due to its special charm in the imagination of the audience, it has had an influential breakthrough in the art of painting in Iran. One of the most important parts of Haftkhwan story in Ferdowsi's Shahnameh is the "Battle of Rostam and the White Devil", which has been depicted many times in the Shahnamehs of different eras, but the repetition of this scene in different schools of painting takes on different structural and meaningful effects. Here it is discussed: "How can the picture "Badrah Rostam with Diospid" be examined with narrative elements? "The purpose of this research is to identify the components and units of the narrative" plot, characterization, point of view, theme, time and place, highlighting and omitting in the text and image of this painting in two schools of Timurid and Safavid, and matching the text and image and examining their similarities and differences. are with each other The current research has been carried out using a descriptive-analytical method using library sources and a narratological approach. For this purpose, these two paintings, which have the same subject and theme. The results of this research are that Narratology is one of the concepts that is commonly used in the image field. This is while the comparison of the text and the image reveals two different expressions from the narrative, as it is inevitable to recognize and understand the image by comparing the literary text. It has been stated that the two schools of Timurid and Safi have been compared and examined with regard to the text and narratological components. This point is of great importance that Iranian painting has been in sync with poetry for a long time and the imagination of poet and painter have coincided. At the same time, despite the painter's obedience to the poet, due to the time conditions and the change of style, context and taste of the society, differences can be observed in the painter's perception of the visual characteristics of the poem. In addition, it should be noted that the story in the form of prose or poetry has a continuity, that the sequence of the story, time, sequence and order of formation of the scenes in the story are respected, while in the painting, these orders are not formed in this way because The painter is faced with the limitation of one image on the page. This has caused the painter to try to represent several scenes from the story by using some measures such as using parts of the text of the poem instead of the image. Based on this, an intertextual relationship between poetry and painting is formed, which can be attractive to the audience. From this point of view, it can be said that the painter displays elements of the poem by using elimination and highlighting, which somehow makes it different from the poem. The difference in style in different times has made the painter's perception of the poem different. One painter covered the sky with azure color, which is a representation of the night, and another with gold color, which is a representation of the day. The elements and colors that painters use are a function of the style of their period. It is that although the painter is trying to depict the theme of the poem, he has the limitation that he must respect the stylistic form and color of the period in question and at the same time he has the opportunity to be creative by using painting arrangements. And this shows the individual aspect of the painter. In this regard, the main feature of the creative aspect is the use of two elements of elimination and highlighting. Based on this, many components of narratology, such as background color, perspective, time and place, etc., can be different in different periods.. Similarities: the characters of the two schools are the same, the colors are also used the same, the content of the two schools is similar
Keywords
Safavid period
Timurid period
Iranian painting
Shahnameh
narratology
Battle of Rostam and White Devil
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Rahpooye Honar-Ha-Ye Tajassomi
Volume 7, Issue 1
Spring 2024
Pages 5-12

  • Receive Date 23 November 2022
  • Revise Date 23 March 0621
  • Accept Date 02 February 2023