The 6th July saw the opening of the Royal Persian Painting: The Qajar Epoch 1785-1925 exhibition at the Brunei Gallery, in London. The exhibition, which was organised by the Brooklyn Museum in New York, has visited Los Angeles and New York before arriving in London, its only European destination. This is an impressive and highly significant exhibition for it boasts of over one hundred oil paintings, photographs and artefacts brought together from European, American, Russian and Iranian collections for the first time. Paintings of the Qajar epoch mark an important watershed in Iranian art. The late eighteenth and nineteenth century saw the transition from the opulence and lavishness typified by Safavid courtly art, to a more reflective and interiorised naturalism which set the tone for the piety and… Click here to read more