When you look at a work of art by Antonio Santin, you may think at first that you are looking at an intricate hand-woven rug. However, Santin is not a...
Tag: paintings
Blogs about paintings
Closely related to the textile arts, the art of painting is intricate and valuable.
Nazmiyal Antique Rugs‘ painting blogs cover a vast range of topics within painting, such as the most expensive painting ever sold, to artists featured in museums, to some beautiful famous paintings.
Our blogs also explore paintings and their relation to rugs. Antique carpets were often featured in older paintings (like paintings from the Renaissance), which helps historians to know what rugs looked like in those time periods.
Furthermore, our blogs explore art that is featured within rugs. For example, Islamic art is displayed in Islamic carpets in the form of calligraphy, vetegal patterns, and figural representation.
If you’re interested in art of any kind, there is bound to be an interesting blog for you in our painting category. Explore our archives and learn something new!
The 16th and 17th centuries are called the “Golden Age of Carpet Weaving.” Estimations based on trade records, dowries, and estates suggest that 100s of thousands of carpets were produced...
A beautifully designed room is a wonderful thing. If you can bring together the furniture, walls, floor and artwork in a space, it can look stunning, even if you are...
Hans Holbein the Younger (1497 - 1543) - was a German artist and print-maker who worked in a Northern Renaissance style.. When the Art Department at the University of Michigan...
Over the years there have been many artists that changed the way we look at the world and art. The same can be said about antique and vintage rugs with...
Nothing says elegance and decadence like the breathtaking Rococo rugs and artwork of the Rococo Period which spanned from the late 17th century through the early 18th. This style of...
Having recently acquired a rare Andy Warhol Flowers rug, we felt it made sense to pay homage and tell the story behind "Flowers". In 1964, the famed artist Any Warhol...
Young lovers, meddling parents, and separation may be the theme, but Romeo and Juliet isn’t the story. This is the tragic Persian love story of Layla and Majnun, two lovers...
We recently acquired a magnificent antique Persian Sarouk rug that depicts the Persian tragic love story of Khosrow and Shirin. Since the rug sold after only one day of being on our...