Farhad, Massumeh
Fellowship Advisor National Museum of Asian Art staffFarhad, Massumeh
Fellowship Advisor National Museum of Asian Art staffIslamic Art, Persian painting.
Background And Education
Education And Training
- B.A., Wellesley College
- M.A., Harvard University
- Ph.D., Harvard University
Awards And Honors
- Secretary's Research Prize, 2024
- Distinguished Scholar in the Humanities, conferred by Office of the Secretary, 2024
- Secretary's Research Prize, conferred by Office of the Secretary, 2017
Research And Grants
Investigator On
- Ancient Iranian and Islamic Art awarded by The Bodri Foundation
- Bodri Foundation awarded by The Bodri Foundation
- Islamic Arts of the Book at the Smithsonian: Providing for Research Across Disciplines awarded by Council on Library Information Resources (CLIR)
- Persian Cultural Outreach Initiative awarded by Peninsula Community Foundation
- The Late Chalcolithic Period 3-5 in the Highlands of the Qara Dagh Valley: The Investigation og Ban Qala awarded by Rust Family Foundation
Publications
Selected Publications
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Article
- Farhad, Massumeh. 2024. "Introduction." Ars Orientalis, 54. https://doi.org/10.3998/ars.7027. 2024
- Al-Ani, Jananne and Farhad, Massumeh. 2024. "Jananne Al-Ani in Conversation." Ars Orientalis, 54. https://doi.org/10.3998/ars.7034. 2024
- Farhad, Massumeh. 2023. "Introduction." Ars Orientalis, 53, (1). https://doi.org/10.3998/ars.4979. 2023
- Farhad, Massumeh. 2012. "The Henri Vever Collection." Orientations, 43, (7) 57. 2012
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Book
- Farhad, Massumeh, McWilliams, Mary, and Rettig, Simon. 2017. A Collector's Passion: Ezzat-Malek Soudavar and Persian Lacquer. Freer and Sackler and Harvard Art Museums. 2017
- Farhad, Massumeh. 2009. Falnama: The Book of Omens / Bagci, Serpil. Washington, D.C.: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. 2009
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Chapter
- Farhad, Massumeh. 2016. "The Divan of Sultan Ahmad Jalayir and the Diez and Istanbul Albums." In The Diez Albums: Contexts and Contents. Gonnella, Julia, Weis, Friederike, and Rauch, Christoph, editors. 485–512. Leiden/Boston: Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004323483_019. 2016
- Farhad, Massumeh. 2015. "Between the Past and the Future fālnāma (Book of Omens) in the 16th and early 17th Centuries." In People of the Prophet's House: Artistic and Ritual Expressions of Shi'i Islam. Suleman, Fahmida, editor. London: Azimuth Publications. 2015
- Farhad, Massumeh. 2010. "Biblical Manuscripts." In Ideals of Beauty: Asian and American Art in the Freer and Sackler Galleries. 50–55. New York: Thams&Hudson. 2010
- Farhad, Massumeh. 2010. "Islamic Art." In Ideals of Beauty: Asian and American Art in the Freer and Sackler Galleries. 118–137. New York: Thames&Hudson. 2010
- Farhad, Massumeh. 2010. "The Ancient World." In Ideals of Beauty: Asian and American Art in the Freer and Sackler Galleries. 38–49. New York: Thames & Hudson. 2010
- Farhad, Massumeh. 2007. "Isfahan XI. School of Painting and Calligraphy." In Encyclopaedia Iranica. 40–43. Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul. 13 2007
Editor Of
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Book
- Farhad, Massumeh and Rettig, Simon, editors. 2016. The Art of the Qur'an: Treasures from the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts. Washington, DC: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. 2016
Presentations
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Presentation
- Farhad, Massumeh. 2019. Artists, Paintings and their Publics Safavid Albums in the Seventeenth Century "United in War and Peace": A Closer Look at Safavid Albums [presentation]. The Yarshater Lectures in Persian Art, SOAS, University of London, January 18, 2019. London, England.
- Farhad, Massumeh. 2019. Artists, Paintings and their Publics Safavid Albums in the Seventeenth Century Isfahan: the City as a Setting for Safavid Painting [presentation]. The Yarshater Lectures in Persian Art, SOAS, University of London, January 17, 2019. London, England.
- Farhad, Massumeh. 2019. Artists, Paintings and their Publics Safavid Albums in the Seventeenth Century Painting and Production: A New Model for Safavid Isfahan [presentation]. The Yarshater Lectures in Persian Art, SOAS, University of London, January 21, 2019. London, England.
- Farhad, Massumeh. 2019. Artists, Paintings and their Publics Safavid Albums in the Seventeenth Century Safavid Albums: Shifting the Visual Language [presentation]. The Yarshater Lectures in Persian Art, SOAS, University of London, January 22, 2019. London, England.
- Farhad, Massumeh. 2020. Between Word and Image: Safavid Visual Culture in the 16th and 17th century Isfahan and Mashhad: Towards a New Aesthetics [presentation]. Jnanaprahava Mumbai, January 15, 2020. Mumbai, India.
- Farhad, Massumeh. 2020. Between Word and Image: Safavid Visual Culture in the 16th and 17th century Qazvin and Shiraz: Arrival of the Millennium [presentation]. Jnanaprahava Mumbai, January 14, 2020. Mumbai, India.
- Farhad, Massumeh. 2020. Between Word and Image: Safavid Visual Culture in the 16th and 17th century Tabriz and Ardabil: Production of Safavid royal manuscript [presentation]. Jnanaprahava Mumbai, January 13, 2020. Mumbai, India.
- Farhad, Massumeh. 2022. Curatorial Planning at the National Museum of Asian Art [presentation]. November 1, 2022. Zoom: Iraq Museum.
- Farhad, Massumeh. 2022. Fashioning an Empire: Safavid Textiles from the Museum of Islamic Art, Doha [presentation]. Friends of Textile Museum Council, March 24, 2022. Virtual: The George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum.
- Farhad, Massumeh. 2022. Fashioning an Empire: Safavid Textiles from the Museum of Islamic Art, Doha [presentation]. March 2, 2022. Virtual: Office of the General Counsel, SI.
- Farhad, Massumeh. 2022. Fashioning an Empire: Safavid Textiles from the Museum of Islamic Art, Doha--Conversation with the Curator [presentation]. May 6, 2022. Virtual, Zoom: Historians of Islamic Art Association (HIAA).
- Farhad, Massumeh. 2020. Shaykh Abbasi and His Circle: Artistic Exchange between Iran and India in the 17th century [presentation]. Annual Deccan Heritage Foundation Lecture, January 16, 2020. Mumbai, India.
- Farhad, Massumeh. 2022. The Gift of Color: The Arts of the Book in Iran [presentation]. Color on Paper Seminar, November 8, 2022. Getty Museum.
- Farhad, Massumeh. 2022. Towards a New Pictorial Language: Painting and Patronage in Seventeenth-Century Iran [presentation]. Seeing Isfahan: Perspectives on the Safavid Image, May 27, 2022. Dublin, Ireland: Trinity College Dublin: Trinity Long Room Hub Arts & Humanities Research Institute.
- Farhad, Massumeh. 2021. Word and Image/Word in Image: Inscribed Manuscript Paintings in Sixteenth-Century Iran [presentation]. Ellen Bayard Weedon Lectures on the Arts of Asia & the Lindner Center Lectures in Art History, November 18, 2021. Department of Art and The Fralin Museum of Art, University of Virginia.
Contact
Location
- National Museum of Asian Art Department
