Description
Our collaboration dates back to the symposium ‘The Marketplace of Identities: Cross-Cultural Themes in Seventeenth-century Isfahan’, held at the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities in January 1996. There we discovered our shared interest in the visual and literary expressions of Safavid culture (1501–1722). Each of us had taken a separate disciplinary path to arrive at similar readings of the post-Shah Abbas I era (1629–66).