The symbolic connotations of color in Iranian Islamic interior design (century 10-12Hijri/16-18AD)

Ghobashi, Mona

doi:10.21608/jsos.2021.65623.1006

The symbolic connotations of color in Iranian Islamic interior design (century 10-12Hijri/16-18AD)

Document Type : scientific articles

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Mona Ghobashi

Faculty of fine arts Helwan university

10.21608/jsos.2021.65623.1006

Abstract

Symbolic connotations are considered one of the important factors that play a role in determining the nature of the decorations and colors used in Islamic buildings, as these signs and symbols have a relationship either to the nature of political rule or religious belief and the nature of the prevailing religious thoughts according to the affiliation of the inhabitants of that place to the Sunnis or Shiites, also symbolic connotations may be related to the nature of the artistic legacies that a society in some place inherits from previous civilizations that precedent the Islamic civilization.
The most important Persian buildings were erected in the sixteenth century AD in the era of Shah Abbas which is based on a style that differs from the artistic Arab style, and does not share the Arab style in other than the decorations. The decorations of Iranian mosques from the outside have a special form, as they are covered with enamel with various drawings, especially the flower drawings that characterized the Iranian art of decoration, also they use mostly the pendants and arabic lines and these are the most important elements that they took from Arabs.
The importance of the research depends on shedding light on the formative treatment of the symbolic connotations based on the walls of Islamic buildings in Iran from the inside and outside which is represented by the combination of symbol, font and color on the walls and the symbols they contain.

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