Comparative Study of Visual Features of Anthology in Shiraz School During the Eskandar Sultan and Ibrahim Sultan Timuri Period

The school of Shiraz Timuri is one of the most influential schools in Iran, formed during the governance of Eskandar Sultan and continued in the age of Ibrahim Sultan One of the common features of this period is anthology of literary texts, which is important as a valuable source for comparing the quality of the illustrations during the Eskandar Sultan and Ibrahim Sultan period. For this purpose, in this study, the pictorial and structural features of the manuscripts of the anthology of Eskandar Sultan in the Galouste Gulbenkian Foundation of Lisbon and the anthology of the poems of Ibrahim Sultan in the Berlin State Museum have been studied. The purpose of this basic research, which has been done by using descriptive, analytical methods with a comparative approach, is to find the visual and structural relationship between the versions of these two periods and to answer this question: Considering the temporal, spatial and cultural similarity of Shiraz school during the reign of Eskandar Sultan and Ibrahim Sultan, what are the commonalities and differences between the visual and structural features of the anthology of these two periods? Data collection was done using library resources, documents and virtual databases. The research results show that although many similarities such as scene selection, realistic approach, tabulation and annotation can be seen in the anthology of these two eras, but the multiplicity, variety and quality of visual elements have decreased in the time of Ibrahim Sultan and composition has played a different role and less prosperous effects than in the previous era.