Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute is proud to announce “Object in Context” at the Louvre Museum on April 5, 2016, from 9am to 5pm.
This day-long program will present the first results of two major research programs focusing on metal wares and metallic lustre wares from the Medieval Iranian World: Islametal and Medieval Kashi projects, both proudly funded by the Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Fund at the Louvre.
Islametal concerns the understanding of materials, techniques and gesture of creation that led to the production of metal wares in the Great Iranian World ( c.10th-15th centuries). One of its main goals is to find out how, where, for whom and in which production context those objects were made. The project is led by Annabelle Collinet from the Department of Islamic Art at the Louvre, with the assistance of Vana Orfanou, the second Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Fellow at the Louvre.
The Medieval Kâshi project focuses on Medieval Iranian tiles from the 13th–14th centuries. Their contextualization is based on the survey of main collections of Iranian lustre tiles in Iran, Europe, and the United States. This project is co-led by Delphine Miroudot from the Department of Islamic Art at the Louvre and Dr. Maryam Kolbadinejad from the Islamic Azad University in Tehran.
