IDENTIFICATION
This Achaemenid relief shows delegations bringing tribute to the Persian king at Persepolis.
What is Audience Hall (Apadana) reliefs?
The Apadana reliefs were carved from this material.
What is stone (limestone)?
The Apadana reliefs primarily served to show this concept.
What is imperial power and unity of the Persian Empire?
A large vaulted entrance hall typical in Islamic architecture.
What is an iwan?
The Apadana reliefs belong to this empire.
What is the Achaemenid Empire?
This Islamic religious building in Isfahan is famous for its four-iwan courtyard plan.
What is the Great Mosque of Isfahan?
The Ardabil Carpet is made primarily from this material.
What is silk and wool?
The Dome of the Rock was built to mark this sacred event in Islamic tradition.
What is Muhammad’s Night Journey?
The Dome of the Rock’s plan is best described as this shape.
What is centralized octagonal plan?
The Dome of the Rock was built under this Islamic dynasty.
What is the Umayyad Dynasty?
This illuminated manuscript depicts a night journey and belongs to a Persian epic poem.
What is the Bahram Gur Fights the Karg folio from the Shah Tahmasp Shahnameh?
The Shahnameh manuscript uses this artistic technique involving gold and vivid pigments.
What is illuminated manuscript painting?
The Ardabil Carpet was originally created for this type of space.
What is a mosque or shrine interior?
The Great Mosque of Isfahan is an early major example of this mosque layout.
What is four-iwan courtyard plan?
The Ardabil Carpet is from this Persian dynasty.
What is the Safavid Dynasty?
This Ottoman architect designed the Süleymaniye Mosque.
Who is Sinan?
The Dome of the Rock is covered in this shimmering surface decoration.
What is mosaic and glazed tile?
The Great Mosque of Isfahan expanded over centuries mainly to accommodate this.
What is growing worshipper populations?
Sinan engineered the Süleymaniye Mosque dome to appear to do this.
What is float weightlessly on light-filled supports?
Sinan worked for this empire.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
This 20th-century Iranian architect designed the Azadi Tower in Tehran.
Who is Hossein Amanat?
The Azadi Tower combines modern concrete with traditional inspiration from this historic building form.
What is the iwan?
The Azadi Tower was built to commemorate this event.
What is Iran’s 2500th anniversary of the Persian Empire?
The Azadi Tower merges modern engineering with motifs from this earlier Persian structure.
What is the Sassanian arch at Ctesiphon?
The Azadi Tower was completed shortly before this major political event in Iran.
What is the 1979 Iranian Revolution?