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Academic Profile
Iván Szántó is Associate Professor at the Department of Iranian Studies of the Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Budapest, Hungary. From 2010 he has been leader of a project at the Institute of Iranian Studies, Vienna, Austria, aiming to contextualize Islamic, chiefly Persian, art objects in Central Europe.
Sample Publications
From Asl to Za'd: Essays in Honour of Éva Jeremiás. Piliscsaba: 2015; The Shaping of Persian Art (ed., with Yuka Kadoi). Newcastle: 2013; Safavid Art in Hungary: The Esterházy Appliqué in Context. Piliscsaba: 2010; “On a Type of Painted Plasterwork in Southern Iran”, in Lorenz Korn – Anja Heidenreich (eds.): Beiträge zur Islamischen Kunst und Archäologie, Bd. 3, Wiesbaden: Reichert, 2012, 321-333; “Hungarian Painters and the Beginnings of Modernism in Iran”, in Ziva Vesel – Isabelle Gadoin (eds.): Figures pionnières de l’orientalisme: Convergences européennes, Monde anglophone – Europe centrale et orientale. Res Orientales XX, Louvain – Bures-sur-Yvette: Éditions Peeters, 2011, 309-320; “A Note on Īnğūid Metalwork”, Acta Orientalia Academiae Scietiarum Hungarica, 63/2 (2010), 211-218
Scholarly Interests
His research interest covers diverse aspects of Iranian art history in the Islamic period, as well as Iranian artistic interactions with neighboring regions. He is currently involved in cataloguing and systematizing projects of Central European public collections of Iranian art.
Current Position
Associate Professor,
ELTE University
