Farhad, Massumeh

Fellowship Advisor

Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery staff

Islamic Art, Persian painting.

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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

• article

  • Farhad, Massumeh. 2012. "The Henri Vever Collection." Orientations 43 (7):57. 2012

• 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. Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. 2009

• chapter

  • Farhad, Massumeh. 2016. "The Divan of Sultan Ahmad Jalayir and the Diez and Istanbul Albums." in The Diez Albums: Contexts and Contents, edited by Gonnella, Julia, Weis, Friederike, and Rauch, Christoph., 485-512. 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, edited by Suleman, Fahmida., Azimuth Publications. 2015
  • Farhad, Massumeh. 2010. "Biblical Manuscripts." in Ideals of Beauty: Asian and American Art in the Freer and Sackler Galleries, 50-55. Thams&Hudson. 2010
  • Farhad, Massumeh. 2010. "Islamic Art." in Ideals of Beauty: Asian and American Art in the Freer and Sackler Galleries, 118-137. 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. Thames & Hudson. 2010
  • Farhad, Massumeh. 2007. "Isfahan XI. School of Painting and Calligraphy." in Encyclopaedia Iranica, 40-43. Routledge & Kegan Paul. 2007

• information content entity

  • 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. 2022
  • 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. 2022
  • 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). 2022
  • Farhad, Massumeh. 2021. Word and Image/Word in Image: Inscribed Manuscript Paintings in Sixteenth-Century Iran [presentation]. November 18, 2021. Ellen Bayard Weedon Lectures on the Arts of Asia & the Lindner Center Lectures in Art History. Virtual: Department of Art and The Fralin Museum of Art, University of Virginia. 2021
  • Farhad, Massumeh. 2020. "Between Word and Image: Safavid Visual Culture in the 16th and 17th century Isfahan and Mashhad: Towards a New Aesthetics." Given at Jnanaprahava Mumbai, January 15, 2020. https://www.jp-india.org/programmes/between-word-and-image-safavid-visual-culture-in-the-16th-and-17th-century. 2020
  • Farhad, Massumeh. 2020. "Between Word and Image: Safavid Visual Culture in the 16th and 17th century Qazvin and Shiraz: Arrival of the Millennium." Given at Jnanaprahava Mumbai, January 14, 2020. https://www.jp-india.org/programmes/between-word-and-image-safavid-visual-culture-in-the-16th-and-17th-century. 2020
  • Farhad, Massumeh. 2020. "Between Word and Image: Safavid Visual Culture in the 16th and 17th century Tabriz and Ardabil: Production of Safavid royal manuscript." Given at Jnanaprahava Mumbai, January 13, 2020. https://www.jp-india.org/programmes/between-word-and-image-safavid-visual-culture-in-the-16th-and-17th-century. 2020
  • Farhad, Massumeh. 2020. "Shaykh Abbasi and His Circle: Artistic Exchange between Iran and India in the 17th century." Given at Annual Deccan Heritage Foundation Lecture, January 16, 2020. https://www.jp-india.org/programmes/shaykh-abbasi-and-his-circle-artistic-exchange-between-iran-and-india-in-the-17th-century. 2020
  • 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." Given at The Yarshater Lectures in Persian Art, SOAS, University of London, January 18, 2019. https://www.soas.ac.uk/art/islac/20may2019-the-yarshater-lectures-in-persian-art---painting-and-production-a-new-model-for-safavid-is.html. 2019
  • Farhad, Massumeh. 2019. "Artists, Paintings and their Publics Safavid Albums in the Seventeenth Century Isfahan: the City as a Setting for Safavid Painting." Given at The Yarshater Lectures in Persian Art, SOAS, University of London, January 17, 2019. https://www.soas.ac.uk/art/islac/20may2019-the-yarshater-lectures-in-persian-art---painting-and-production-a-new-model-for-safavid-is.html. 2019
  • Farhad, Massumeh. 2019. "Artists, Paintings and their Publics Safavid Albums in the Seventeenth Century Painting and Production: A New Model for Safavid Isfahan." Given at The Yarshater Lectures in Persian Art, SOAS, University of London, January 21, 2019. https://www.soas.ac.uk/art/islac/20may2019-the-yarshater-lectures-in-persian-art---painting-and-production-a-new-model-for-safavid-is.html. 2019
  • Farhad, Massumeh. 2019. "Artists, Paintings and their Publics Safavid Albums in the Seventeenth Century Safavid Albums: Shifting the Visual Language." Given at The Yarshater Lectures in Persian Art, SOAS, University of London, January 22, 2019. https://www.soas.ac.uk/art/islac/20may2019-the-yarshater-lectures-in-persian-art---painting-and-production-a-new-model-for-safavid-is.html. 2019

editor of

• book

  • Farhad, Massumeh and Rettig, Simon. , eds. 2016. The Art of the Qur'an: Treasures from the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts. Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. 2016

Contact

Location

• Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery  Department