page_title: Safavid art
section_title: The end of the period
hierarchical_section_title: Safavid art / Architecture and urbanism / The end of the period
caption_attribution_description: A door inside madreseh-e-chahar bagh in Esfahan (Isfahan).
context_page_description: Safavid art is the art of the Persian Safavid dynasty from 1501 to 1722, in present-day Iran and Caucasia. It was a high point for the art of the book and architecture; and also including ceramics, metal, glass, and gardens. The arts of the Safavid period show a far more unitary development than in any other period of Iranian art. The Safavid Empire was one of the most significant ruling dynasties of Iran. They ruled one of the greatest Persian empires, with artistic accomplishments, since the Muslim conquest of Persia.
context_section_description: One can still evoke two buildings of Isfahan, dating from the late Safavid period.  The Hasht Behesht (the "eight paradises") is composed of a pavilion with eight little entities distributed around a large room under a cupola with four iwans.  Small vaults crown the secondary rooms, decorated with mirrors which make the surfaces appear to be moving.  The exterior decor, in ceramic, is remarkable for its extensive use of yellow.  This building is dated to the years 1671.
  The madreseh Madar-e Shah, or madreseh of the mother of the Shah, is on the Chahar Bagh and is dated 1706-1714.  It carries no architectural innovation, and therefore evokes the stagnation of architecture of this period:    a plan of four iwans and a dome reminiscent of the mosque of the Shah form the major part of its architectural elements.  The decor, highly  geometric, is on the other hand a little different from that of the 17th century, with a palette dominated by yellow, green and gold, and a denser network of vegetation than that in the Shah's mosque.
caption: Door in the madreseh Mādar-e Shah, Isfahan
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