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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
Current Position
Associate Professor,
ELTE University