The Aesthetics of Garden’s Concept in Miniature and Gardening of India (With Emphasis on the Mughal Era)

Adelvand, Padideh

The Aesthetics of Garden’s Concept in Miniature and Gardening of India (With Emphasis on the Mughal Era)

Document Type : Research Paper

Author

Padideh Adelvand

Faculty member of NAZAR research center Ph.D Candidate in Art Research

Abstract

The garden concept is a common concept amongst the garden designer, briefly in this article refers as gardener, and miniature artists which has been affected by worldviews of different land during the history which implies a variety of objective manifestations. The Iranian gardener and miniaturist due to this common Iranian Islamic worldview available in land followed by that common understanding of garden concept agree on the common elements of garden.Gardening and miniature are of that conceptual arts have been entered into the territory of Iran, coincidence with the Mughal era.
This common worldview and understanding has been made the author to follow up the questions of how the garden concept has been emerged in art works. Since gardening and miniature in India comprises the Iranian- Islamic archetype, there is a question of whether this archetype has been lasting continuously in Indian gardening and miniature over the time?
The garden concept in Indian gardening and miniatures under the influence of Mughal worldview and more over the characterization of Indian Territory has taken away from those conceptual implications of original archetype and made an independent entity in form of a dominant aesthetics. The greatness of the architecture inside the garden, the manifestation of platform divan, trimmed vegetation of interior garden and the existence of water as decorative arrays, are of those characteristics which encompass the conceptual implication of garden concept in Indian miniature and gardening.

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