JARDINS DU PARADIS (LES)

KHÂMSEH DE NEZÂMI (1620-1624) - MINIATURE PERSANNE - COLLECTION PALETTES

of JAUBERT Alain

FRANCE, 1997, 00:30:00

Production : PALETTE PRODUCTIONS, PAINI Dominique, MUSEE DU LOUVRE, SAADOUN Paul
Collection : Musée du Louvre
Genre : Documentary
Keyword : Art, Calligraphy, Louvre Museum, Poetry

Summary :
By choosing main artworks in the imagination of the western culture, the series “Palettes” tells in each episode the story of a painting. In one word : its genealogy. As a canvas has its ascendants and its descendants. A double knowledge, technical and philosophical, nourished by a long tradition, gave birth to it. And the painting itself has brought about, all through the years, a multitude of other images…
Going from the idea that the deep meaning of a painting is conveyed by the choice of the colours and the themes, we are dissecting the canvas from its more visible composition to its deepest meaning.

During several centuries, all the plastic inventions of the Persian art have brilliantly spread in the creation of precious manuscripts. One of these manuscripts composed at the beginning of the XVIIth century, probably at Ispahan, gathers the five great poems of Nezâmi, poet of the XVIth century. Learned calligraphies, wonderful illuminations, bright colored miniatures are taking turns on a carefully prepared and gold sowed paper. The images are going with the poems and tell their way the epics and legends of the Ancient Persia.

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