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DESCRIPTION:Sheila Canby will speak at the Ravi and Seran\nTrehan Seminar i
 n the Arts of the Islamic World on Wednesday\, March 14\,\n2012.  Her talk
  is entitled “Iranian Art at the Time of Shah `Abbas II\n(1642–1666).' Whi
 le many art historians have focused on the reign of Shah `Abbas I (1587-16
 29) as a transformational period in Safavid art\, his great-grandson\, Sha
 h `Abbas II\, who ruled from 1642 to 1666\, has received less attention as
  a patron.  Sussan Babaie has written the seminal article on Shah `Abbas I
 I’s palace\, the Chihil Sutun\, and the changes he ordered to the Ali Qapu
  in Isfahan.  Other scholars\, such as Massumeh Farhad\, have written on p
 atronage and painters in this period.  Canby’s talk will pay proper homage
  to the work of Babaie and Farhad\, but will present mid-seventeenth-centu
 ry art across the media with the aim of defining the dominant styles of th
 e period and the factors that contributed to the marked differences betwee
 n art produced for the court and art produced for provincial grandees.  Fu
 rthermore\, Canby will examine internal and external factors such as trade
 \, the Safavid economy\, and religious policies for clues to decisions tha
 t affected the types of objects produced in this period.\n\nSheila Canby i
 s the Patti Cadby Birch Curator in Charge of the Islamic Art Department at
  the Metropolitan Museum of Art.  Until fall 2009\, she was the Curator of
  Islamic Collections at the British Museum.  Canby’s publications include 
 Persian Painting (London\, 1993)\, Islamic Art in Detail (London\, 2005)\,
  and Shah `Abbas: the Remaking of Iran (London 2009).  At the Metropolitan
  Museum of Art\, she is co-editor of Masterpieces of the Department of Isl
 amic Art and author of The Shahnama of Shah Tahmasp -- two books published
  in conjunction with the 2011 opening of the galleries for the art of the 
 Arab Lands\, Turkey\, Iran\, Central Asia and Later South Asia.  Canby is 
 currently performing research on Persian art\, both of the Safavid and ear
 lier periods\, and hopes to curate an exhibition on Seljuq art with her co
 lleague Deniz Beyazit in 2015.
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: Iranian Art at the Time of Shah ‘Abbas II (16
 42–1666)
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