Foreignization in the miniature of School of Isfahan: A cultural approach

This paper aims to identify the influence of cross-cultural communications on the formation and development of theminiature of School of Isfahan. The main findings of this paper explain and describe the method of foreignization andthe influence of cultural changes on the emergence of this method. In other words, in the process of developing foreignrelations during the reign of the Safavids, and by the entrance of European artists to Iran and the familiarity of Iranianartists with Western painting styles, a new course of events happens in the Persian miniature as foreignization affectedby the aesthetic methods and techniques of non-Iranian painting. The results of this study have shown that crossculturalcommunication has deeply influenced the emergence of new artistic and non-Iranian practices in differentways including economic, political and cultural relations. And therefore foreignization for us is a dynamic aestheticsystem. That’s why we have explained and illustrated the course of events related to the foreignization of artworksanalysis of this period with descriptions and analysis by using applied research methods.

Keywords:

Foreignization , Miniature , Culture. Foreign relation , Aesthetics