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Qajar art refers to the art and art-forms of the Qajar dynasty of the Persian Empire, which lasted from 1781 to 1925. Most notably, Qajar art is recognizable for its distinctive style of portraiture.
The boom in artistic expression that occurred during the Qajar era was the fortunate side-effect of the period of relative peace that accompanied the rule of Agha Muhammad Khan and his descendants.
With his ascension, the bloody turmoil that had been the eighteenth century in Persia came to a close, and made it possible for the peacetime arts to again flourish.
A Persian miniature is a small painting, whether a book illustration or a separate work of art intended to be kept in an album of such works.
The techniques are broadly comparable to the Western and Byzantine traditions of miniatures in illuminated manuscripts.
Persian painting has several branches, most famously the classical art of the Persian miniature, and including the modern popular form of "Qahveh Khanehei" Painting (Tea House style of painting).
Many modern Iranian artists practice Modern art in an international style.
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