A Comparative Study on the Tombstones Containing Occupational Motifs of Isfahan's New Julfa Cemetery with the Takht-e-Foulad Cemetery


Jahanmard B., Mohammadzadeh M.

GLORY OF ART, cilt.15, sa.1, ss.7-23, 2023 (Hakemli Dergi)

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 15 Sayı: 1
  • Basım Tarihi: 2023
  • Doi Numarası: 10.22051/jjh.2023.41486.1841
  • Dergi Adı: GLORY OF ART
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Directory of Open Access Journals
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.7-23
  • Atatürk Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

The philosophy of life and death is one of the common beliefs of all religions and human civilizations, which is symbolically and sacredly present in the tombstones of Takht-e-Foolad and Julfa monasteries in Isfahan; And displays a museum of various motifs and inscriptions by Muslim and Armenian artists and stonemasons from the Safavid period to the contemporary period. One of the common decorations in these tombs is the role of occupations and social status of the deceased during his life; Which is manifested in the form of tools and tools of jobs, or has taken the form of a human figure. Most of the surviving stones of these two monasteries belong to the Qajar and Pahlavi periods. The relationship and interaction between Muslims and Armenians, the closeness of monotheistic religions and their common biological experience in Isfahan led to many artistic commonalities over the centuries in Takht-e Folad and Julfa, and played an important role in recognizing culture, art and worldview of the meaning of life and death. has it. In the present study, the information of which has been collected in the field and documents and library resources, an attempt is made to comparatively study the occupation motifs of Muslim tombstone occupations with Armenians by descriptive-analytical method. The statistical population included all Armenian tombstones and steel slabs. One hundred tombstones were selected for the study samples. This study answers the question: What is the relationship between human motifs and the tools of Armenian stone tombstones and steel beds, considering the principles of Islamic art and Christianity? Based on this study, it was found that the occupations in the shrines of Jolfa Monastery are mainly the motifs of men and women doing their work and profession in the form of iconography, but in most Takht-e-Foolad shrines, as a Muslim sanctuary, with the iconography approach, the only tools are tools without tools. The human role is manifested; Which is rooted in the fundamental differences between the basics of Islamic art and Christianity.