خلاصة:
Nasuh, Known as Matrakci was a miniature painter who accompanied King Suleiman Kanuni during his campaign to Iran in 940-42 AH/1533-36 AD and he has drawn many miniature from lots of Iranian cities including Khoy, Tabriz, Zanjan, Soltaniyeh, Hamedan, and Ghasre Shirin to Baghdad and Shahre Zur, Baneh, Bukan, Maraghe. Being capital during one part of the Safavid dynasty and in the other part as the second most important political, economical, social, cultural and architectural city in Iran, Tabriz was considered a very important city. Unfortunately, the natural and artificial disasters such as incessant earthquakes and war with the powerful neighboring countries like ottoman had destroyed many parts of its structure. Therefore drawn miniature from Tabriz is the most comprehensive visual documents of one of the powerful city of Iran in Safavid Era that it’s reviewing helps a lot to recognition lost elements of this city in the 16th century.
ملخص الجهاز:
Review Drawn Miniature of Tabriz City by Nasuh in 16th century 1Dariush Sattarzadeh, *2Lida Balilan Asl 1 and 2Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture and Art, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz Branch, Tabriz, Iran Received 04.
2013 Nasuh, Known as Matrakci was a miniature painter who accompanied King Suleiman Kanuni during his campaign to Iran in 940-42 AH/1533-36 AD and he has drawn many miniature from lots of Iranian cities including Khoy, Tabriz, Zanjan, Soltaniyeh, Hamedan, and Ghasre Shirin to Baghdad and Shahre Zur, Baneh, Bukan, Maraghe.
This is only possible through regeneration and mapping of Tabriz in the Safavid period by reviewing Matrakci miniature as a visual documents in 16th century because there aren’t many primary sources such as large buildings and urban spaces left from this period, so we can only rely on the writings and drawings of travelers and tourists.
MATERIALS AND METHODS Following is a brief list of some of the written sources including books and travelogues of Safavid period: Hmdolah Mostofi (8 & 9 AH century/ 1389-1489 AD), Veniziyan (938AH/ 1514AD), Ambrogio Contarini (876AH/ 1474AD), Alessandry (1947AH/1571AD), Wriyht (1015AH/1606AD) Tavernier (1046AH/ 1637AD), Oliya Chalabi (1050 AH/ 1639Ad), Jean Chardin (1076AH/ 1665AD), Gemelli Careri (1105AH/ 1693 AD), Villote (1108AH/ 1696AD), and John Belle (112AH/ 1715AD).
Among the huge collection of Shanb Ghazan, he mentions Table 1: The most important architectural and urban elements of Tabriz city from viewpoint of travelers during Ilkhanid, Safavid nad Qajar Era (Source: Sattarzadeh and Balilan, 2012) 1292 Marco-Polo 1300 Ibn Battuta ?