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The Analysis of the Assassination and Mourning Imagery in Ilkhani's Shahnameh Relying on the Semiotics Roland Barthes
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Fatemeh Bagherizadeh   , Zeynab Saber * |
| Art University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran |
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Abstract: (1991 Views) |
Ferdowsi's Shahnameh is one of the literary works in which the narratives of the heroes' assassination and mourning for them are expressed, and in some of its visual versions, images with the theme of mourning have been depicted. The painters of Ilkhani's Shahnameh, one of the masterpieces of the Mongol epoch and the first school of Tabriz, have frequently portrayed images of assassination and mourning in this masterpiece. In terms of studying paintings with these themes in Ilkhani's Shahnameh, a correct understanding of the signs and visual concepts of the paintings is not achieved by only relying on the text and poems of the Shahnameh. Thus, in this research, the images of assassination and mourning in Ilkhani's Shahnameh have been analyzed based on Rolan Barthes' semiotics. The consequences show that the paintings in Ilkhani's Shahnameh, this worthwhile masterpiece, whose creators had more elevated dreams than just creating a work of art, not only reflects on the procedure of creation and evolution of Iranian art but also mirrors creeds, beliefs, socio-political currents and signs of Iran in the Mongol epoch. Selected images from this Shahname with the theme of assassination and mourning have been subjected to structural and content analysis with a different viewpoint based on "Rolan Barthes semiotics". By explaining and revealing the relationship between the explicit and implicit implications of the text and the imagery, it was stated that the explicit implication of the mourning paintings refers to the original and written text (songs of the Shahname). Upon analyzing the implied implications, the connection of the mourning images implies the situation of the Iranian people after the Mongol attack and massacre. In the analysis of the second implied implication, it can be said that the images of assassination, mourning, and funeral in Shahnameh, emphasizing the position of the current minister, Khwaja Ghiyath al-Din Muhammad, imply the immortality the memory of the assassination of his father, Sheikh Fazlullah Hamedani.
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| Keywords: Ilkhani's Shahnameh, mourning, painting, explicit implication, implicit implication |
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Type of Study: Research |
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Received: 2024/05/25 | Accepted: 2024/10/8
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