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Massumeh Farhad
Born
Iran
Alma materHarvard University
Occupation(s)Curator, art historian, author
Known forIslamic art history, Iranian art history, Turkish art history

Massumeh Farhad is an Iranian-born American curator, art historian, and author. She is the Chief Curator and Curator of Islamic Art at the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Asian Art.[1][2] She is known for her work with Persian 17th-century manuscripts.[3]

Biography

Massumeh Farhad grew up in Iran, and emigrated from Iran to the United States to attend university.[4] Farhad has a PhD (1987) in art history from Harvard University.[3] In 1997, she had been in a relationship with the Chief Curator of the National Museum of African Art, Philip L. Ravenhill (1945–1997) before his death.[5]

She has contributed to the Encyclopaedia Iranica.[3] Farhad has curated numerous exhibitions including the "Art of the Persian Courts" (1996),[6] "The Heroic Past: The Persian Book of Kings" (2000),[7] "Fountains of Light: The Nuhad Es-Said Collection of Metalwork" (2000),[8] "Antoin Sevruguin and the Persian Image" (2001),[9] "The Adventures of Hamza" (2002),[10] "Style and Status: Imperial Costumes From Ottoman Turkey" (2005),[11] "Facing East: Portraits from Asia" (2006),[12] "Falnama: The Book of Omens" (2009),[2] and "The Art of Qur’an: Treasures from the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Art" (2016–2017).[13][14][15]

Publications

  • Farhad, Massumeh (1987). Safavid Single Page Painting, 1629–1666 (thesis). Harvard University.
    OCLC 192140330
    .
  • Farhad, Massumeh (1990). The Art of Mu'in Musavvir: A Mirror of His Times.
  • Simpson, Marianna Shreve; Farhad, Massumeh (1997). Sultan Ibrahim Mirza's Haft Awrang: A Princely Manuscript from Sixteenth-century Iran. Yale University Press.
    ISBN 9780300068023
    .
  • ISBN 978-1860647215.[16][17]
  • Farhad, Massumeh; Bağcı, Serpil (2009). Falnama: The Book of Omens. Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.
    ISBN 9780934686150.[18]
  • Farhad, Massumeh;
    ISBN 9781588345783.[19]

See also

References

  1. ^ Brown, Matthew Hay (2009-11-05). "Rare Islamic art put online for all". The Baltimore Sun. pp. A1, A10. Retrieved 2022-10-17 – via Newspapers.com. says Massumeh Farhad, chief curator at the Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution
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  3. ^ a b c Moulton, Gavin (March 25, 2022). "Dr. Massumeh Farhad". Middle East Policy Council. Retrieved 2022-10-17.
  4. ^ "Dr. Massumeh Farhad". Middle East Policy Council (MEPC). Retrieved 2023-06-07.
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  8. ^ Newsletter, East Asian Art and Archaeology. East Asian Program, University of Michigan. 1998. p. 7.
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  13. ^ Inskeep, Steve (December 2, 2016). "Quran Exhibition Shines A Light On The Holy Books' Dedicated Artists". NPR.org. Retrieved 2022-10-17.
  14. ISSN 0362-4331
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  15. ^ Dražović, Željko (2017-03-02). "The forgotten beauty of Islamic Art". Arthive. Retrieved 2022-10-17.
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  17. JSTOR 4330207
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  18. ISSN 1543-950X
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  19. ISSN 0240-8910. {{cite journal}}: |issue= has extra text (help
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