The Study of Human Iconography in the Painting School of Isfahan 10-11 /16-17

Human image is one of the features of the Isfahan style painting. Methods and attitudes that have made it different Than the picture of old schools. This paper examined the conditions that cause this type of attitude and painted, the requisites that make painting a picture of Shah Abbas I will pay more attention.Political, social and cultural exigencies attracted more attention to human images in the era of Shah Abbas I. These exigencies originated from internal and foreign relationships of the government. This research presupposes that certain principles in the Iranian painting originated from the Iranian-Islamic thought but these developments emerged in the iconography of Isfahan School of painting. Therefore, it is necessary to study the domain of these developments.This article tries to examine how these changes can affect the human iconography. Research findings show that various socio-political and cultural factors influenced the human representation in this era leading to new features in the Isfahan School of painting.The methodology of this study is based on historical analysis as well as data collected from library sources.