Comparative study of the resurrection in Iranian Qajar painting and Byzantine Russian art

Despite the Islamic texts, which are rich in material on the resurrection and mention it specific in a few Sura of the Qur’an, but there is no trace of illustrating this, event in the Islamic art of the Qajar period, in fact, representations of resurrection was inspired from Christian art that has been rich in Representation of this subject. The origin of this inspiration are traced back to the Safavid period, that is The impact of the international relations and presence of merchants, and Christian tourists and specially the immigration of Armenian to Iran. But the climax of this impact on religious art and figurative and Iconic representations in large scale and diversity was in the Qajar period, So that the embodiment of Doomsday Scene was Belonging to this period But in this course there was only two paintings that depicting the Resurrection and their belonging to an artist by the name of Mohammad Moddaber. While Christian art that has been rich in Representation of this subject,The works of Mohammad Modaber were inspired from Byzantine art specially Russia that has been in more contact with Iran than other foreign countries. In this article we study the Source of influence and compare the artworks of Doomsday from a Byzantine art of Russia with the Doomsday (judgement day) painting from Mohammad Modabber.