Journal of General Union of Arab Archaeologists (Jan 2019)

The artist Ali Quli Baik "Jabadar" and his artistic life

  • Dr.Eman Mohamed Elabed Yaseen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.21608/jguaa.2019.8028.1042
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 20, no. January
pp. 83 – 107

Abstract

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This research aims to identify closely the person of the "Aliqali Gbadar", follow his career, that he was one of the deputies of the art of painting in the Safavid court during the reign of Shah Abbas II (1052 AH / 1642 AD-1077 AH / 1666 AD), and his artistic reputation among the stars of that important period of art for being one of the artists who adopted the Western artistic trend in their works , Such as: Muhammad Zaman, Sheikh Abbasi, and others. He took advantage of paintings and pictures by some of the most important Dutch artists of the time: Philip Angel, Lucar, Rumian, Yan Duhart, and other Indian landscape painters such as Kordahan. Of the European prints, which is the reason for his artistic style. Aliqli was a head of painters, as well as a "gbadar" in the Safavid court.

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