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ZOOM DOCENT TOUR: National Museum of Asian Art, Fashioning an Empire: Safavid - LFV & FHNN M/V ONLY

When:

Friday, May 20, 2022, 10:30 AM until 11:30 AM

Where:

Virtual Event
Bethesda , MD 20816

Event Contact(s):

Margaret Warker

Category:

Educational

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May 20 - ZOOM DOCENT TOUR:
National Museum of Asian Art, Fashioning an Empire: Safavid

Fashioning an Empire: Safavid Textiles from the Museum of Islamic Art, Doha

Friday, May 20, 10:30-11:30 am

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art has collaborated with the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha on an exhibition focusing on a selection of extraordinary seventeenth-century textiles and full-length portraits from Safavid Iran (1501-1722). This art docent tour will discuss how these tapestries, the most lucrative economic commodity for the Safavid Empire of Iran, were exported by land and sea to both Europe and the East. Used for clothing, furnishing, and movable architecture, the fabrics functioned as important symbols of power and as ubiquitous forms of artistic expression.

www.littlefallsvillage.org/Islamictextiles

Collaboration between Little Falls Village & Friendship Heights Neighbors Network.

ZOOM DOCENT TOUR: SPACE IS LIMITED.

TOUR IS FOR LFV AND FHNN MEMBERS & VOLUNTEERS ONLY. The Zoom login information will be sent to confirmed registrants.