Comparison of Language and Symbolic Expression in Pasargad Bas-Reliefs with the Type of Expression in Traditional Iranian-Islamic Architecture

Subject Areas : Historical Archaeology

Mahmood Tavousi ¹ , Mahdi Haghighatbin ²

1 - Faculty Member, Department of Art, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran.
2 - Ph.D. candidate in Art Research, Department of Art, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran.

Received: 2023-07-26 Accepted : 2023-07-26 Published : 2007-08-23

Keywords: culture, architecture, Relief, Pasargad, Religion,

Abstract :

Pre-Islamic Iranian architecture developed in different periods, and with the advent of Islam, a huge transformation took place in it due to the orders of the new religion. Considering the importance of the Persians and their architectural style, this article first explains about the Achaemenids and how the empire was formed and the fall of the Persians and the historical period after this empire, and then mentions the characteristics of Pasargad and the reasons for its importance. In the next section, religion and ritual in the Achaemenid period are examined, and then, it studies the motifs and architectural details in the buildings of Pasargad and especially the palaces of Cyrus from the perspective of researchers who have researched in Pasargad. In the following, it describes the influence of Islam on traditional Iranian-Islamic art and architecture and its symbolic aspects, and finally, it compares the symbolic and religious aspects in the architecture of these two periods, especially in their details.