A Comparative study on tow books of the “ Golestan – e - Honar” with “Managheb – e- Honarvaran

Historic resources of Iranian art history are a few and their precedence also isn’t very impressive. Precedence of versions which have paid to the artist’s works and biographies especially painters don’t exceed from five hundred years. Whereas this ancient land has works that their precedence dating back thousands of years. Ghazi Ahmad Monshi Ghomi is the writer of the book, Golestane Honar. His father, famous to Mir Monshi. He was born on 935 A.H. He had governmental posts in Shah Esmaeel and Shah Mohammad Khodabandeh era and Shah Abbas was unkindness to him from 1007 A.H and his final life is not clear. Ghazi Ahmad has much authorship. Golestane Honar was finished about 1000 A.H. The only printed version of Golestane Honar which is now available has one introduction and four chapter and 150 pages. The major part of the book is related to calligraphists and art of calligraphy. The writer has assigned some parts of final chapter to painters and painting. Mustafa Kamal Afandi is the author of the book, Managhebe Honarvaran. He was born on 948 A.H in Kliboli. He studied jurisprudence and exegesis when he was young. He had a talent for poetry and “Alee” was his pseudonym. He was delegated writing post on 968 A.H by order of Salim Osmani prince (Salim Sani).He was dead in Jaddeh on 1008 A.H. He wrote Managhebe Honarvaran on 995 A.H and the only translated and printed version of this book which is now available has one introduction and five chapter and 70 pages. The first four chapters are assigned to calligraphists and some parts of final chapter are assigned to painters. Now, in spite of the fact that in any reason written sources are limited, therefore we should value existing versions and attempt to operate them and from this perspective clarify art history as much as possible. One way of using these resources are comparative studies. All researchers who in the present century have had compiling in the field of Iran’s visual arts have enjoyed from two historic book such as “Golestane Honar” whitened by Ghazi Ahmad Mir Munshi Ghomi and ‘’ Managhebe Honarvaran” whitened by Mustafa Ali Afandi that have compiled in close time and necessarily have had many references to them. One of these two important versions has been written in Iran and another in Ottoman territory. The present paper tries after introducing the books and their authors to compare their features and in part of the paintings and painters will examine the common aspects and their differences and after identifying differences eliminate and analyze some of them. To facilitate comparison, information of two books about artist has been arranged in separate tables so that similarities and differences of traditions become clear. With attention to this subject that some of information in each book is supplementary for awareness of another book, inevitably from their comparison get result new findings can be used in future research. For example, we can know the artist who Ali Afandi introduces him “Mir Naghash Esfehani” is same “Agha Mirak”.