The Intertextual Relationship between Sa ib's poetical wisdom and the Paintings of Isfahan School

Most historiographers of the paintings of Safavid Isfahan School have pointed out the separation of painting from illustration and narrative poetry, indicating that these two latter genres, namely painting and poetry, wanted to act as independent artistic genres. Literary scholars have indicated also the use of painting terminology, such as figure, brush, hue, watercolors and other paintings’ paraphernalia in the poems of Isfahan School’s era. This article tries to study the interaction between poetry and painting in Isfahan School and compare their common features such as content, paradox, metaphor, ambiguity and metonymy.