Jean-Baptiste Eugène Napoléon Flandin (15 August 1809 in Naples – 29 September 1889 in Tours ), French orientalist , painter, archaeologist , and politician. Flandin's archeological drawings and some of his military paintings are valued more highly by museum authorities than his purely artistic paintings. He is most renowned for his famous drawings and paintings of Persian monuments, landscapes, and social life made during his travels with the architect Pascal Coste during the years 1839–41. Flandin's observations on Iran and international politics in the mid-19th century also continue to provide important documentary information.
12-451: Flandin is a French surname. Notable people with the surname include: Eugène Flandin (1809–1889), French painter Hervé Flandin (born 1965), French biathlete Pierre-Étienne Flandin (1889–1959), French politician See also [ edit ] Louis A. Bertrand (1808–1875), leader of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,
24-631: Is currently headed by the eldest descendant of Mohammad Ali Shah, Sultan Mohammad Ali Mirza Qajar , while the Heir Presumptive to the Qajar throne is Mohammad Hassan Mirza II , the grandson of Mohammad Hassan Mirza , Sultan Ahmad Shah's brother and heir. Mohammad Hassan Mirza died in England in 1943, having proclaimed himself shah in exile in 1930 after the death of his brother in France. Today,
36-686: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Eug%C3%A8ne Flandin In 1839, Flandin was, along with Coste, made a laureate of the Institut de France , and they both joined the embassy of the Comte de Sercey [ fr ] to Iran (1839–41). After parting from de Sercey's mission, they left Isfahan (31 May 1841) with very limited financial means and retinue. They pursued their periplus towards Hamadān , Kangāvar , Bīsotūn , Ḥolwān , etc. They went back to Isfahan and then on to Shiraz and
48-659: Is given in “time necessary at the ordinary pace of a horse”. Endowed with many gifts and professional skills (classical, military, and Orientalist painting; archeological drawing; writing and reporting; military and civil administration), Flandin provides us with very precious observations, accounts, and pictures. There is hardly any illustrated book on Iran, particularly one dealing with the Qajar period, without reproductions of his celebrated paintings of monuments, bazaars, personages and costumes, street scenes, landscapes, etc. All this work, supplemented with precise written observations,
60-641: The International Museum for Family History in Eijsden . The shah and his consort were styled Imperial Majesty . Their children were addressed as Imperial Highness , while male-line grandchildren were entitled to the lower style of Highness ; all of them bore the title of Shahzadeh or Shahzadeh Khanoum . The headship of the Imperial Family is inherited by the eldest male descendant of Mohammad Ali Shah. The Heir Presumptive
72-642: The Persian Gulf (Būšehr), returning to Tehran via Shiraz, Isfahan, and Kashan . They then traveled to Tabrīz , where disastrous sanitary conditions hampered their return through Trabzon or Tiflis so that they had to take the Tabrīz- Baghdad route through Kurdistan instead. Flandin's courage during this journey was praised by Coste, who also noted his intrepidity and his violent temper (Notes I, pp. 162 f., 367 f.). Their timetable and work were strictly organized. After Flandin's return to France, he
84-674: The descendants of the Qajars often identify themselves as such and hold reunions to stay socially acquainted through the Kadjar (Qajar) Family Association , often coinciding with the annual conferences and meetings of the International Qajar Studies Association (IQSA). The Kadjar (Qajar) Family Association was founded for a third time in 2000. Two earlier family associations were stopped because of political pressure. The offices and archives of IQSA are housed at
96-628: The excavated remains and inscriptions. He also participated in the excavations which ended in October 1844. Despite its many predecessors, Flandin's Voyage en Perse remains a model of its kind and an important source, particularly on early Qajar Iran, due to both its text and its illustrations. It provides many precious observations on history, archeology, arts, architecture, geography, social and court life, royal and provincial administration, military organization, etc. Itineraries are carefully noted. A table of distances between clearly identified stages
108-670: Was accomplished despite the many hardships endured by Coste and Flandin during their travels. However, Flandin's pioneering work in archeological drawing was, soon after his Oriental expeditions, superseded by the new art of photography. Daguerreotype and calotype made it possible to prepare pictures, notably of archeological remains, quickly and precisely, although archeological drawing still remains an indispensable complement to research and publication. [REDACTED] Media related to Eugène Flandin at Wikimedia Commons Qajar dynasty The Qajar dynasty ( Persian : دودمان قاجار , romanized : Dudemâne Ǧâjâr ; 1789–1925)
120-678: Was an Iranian royal dynasty founded by Mohammad Khan ( r. 1789–1797 ) of the Qoyunlu clan of the Turkoman Qajar tribe . The dynasty's effective rule in Iran ended in 1925 when Iran's Majlis , convening as a constituent assembly on 12 December 1925, declared Reza Shah , a former brigadier-general of the Persian Cossack Brigade , as the new shah of Pahlavi Iran . The Qajar Imperial Family in exile
132-615: Was awarded the Légion d’honneur . In March 1843, after fruitless searching for the site of Nineveh , Paul-Émile Botta (1802–70) discovered the Assyrian capital of Dur Sharrukin on the site of modern Khorsabad . Botta mistook the place for the actual site of Nineveh (Assyro-Babylonian cuneiform had not yet been deciphered). In October, Flandin was appointed to Botta's mission by the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres to draw
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