Travel Pastels
Bridges, Towers, Textiles
and Other Things
from Iran and Central Asia
1972-73
Places I was not able to visit are marked with an asterisk.
The images come from Arthur Upham Pope's late 1930's Survey of Persian Art,
or Mortimer Wheeler’s 1960's Splendors of the East: Temples, Tombs
Palaces and Fortresses of Asia
I have long ago lost the names of most of the places.
Scroll down for the paintings, click the
thumbnails
for larger views.
 A winged genius, Pasargadae, Iran
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 *Ruins of Al Khanum, Alexander's abandoned city on the Oxus (After Wheeler: Temples...) |
 *A Sassnian textile fragment (After Pope: Survey...)
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 *A Sassnian textile fragment (After Pope: Survey...) |
 *Looking out from beneath a Zoroastrian fire tower (After Pope: Survey...)
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 *A Sassnian textile fragment (After Pope: Survey...)
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