Farhad, Massumeh
Fellowship Advisor Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery staffFarhad, Massumeh
Fellowship Advisor Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery 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, 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. 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.
