Just look at the difference between the Pairidaeza in #civ7 and civ6! So much greater detail, and loving the characteristic talar building (columnated hall/porch) on one end!
شروين / Shervin
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شروين / Shervin
@paisley_trees
Art History PhD candidate at yale. I play Civ6 while talking history on youtube! Videos frequently feature Dr. Crow @erikaldritch who is less chronically online
Joined March 2009
- One of the biggest challenges for #civ7 is to show civilizations are not erased between eras, and I have to say as an architectural historian I love how the layered city is one of the important ways of telling that story. Here you can see the Roman buildings alongside the Norman.
- SO much exciting info revealed today for #civ7, I have no idea where to start with our first video! My big question is if there will be enough civs to make the era changes feel historically accurate? Egypt -> Songhai -> Buganda??
- Y’all… this was written in 2020!!! I’m dead please no one use this textbook in your classrooms
- My first ever published article!!! Thank you to everyone that helped make this happen ❤️
- Is a world possible where an Islamic art historian can give a talk and not be forced to answer a question about the “prohibition” of depicting human figures?
- Hope everyone in Istanbul got as much vitamin D as this cat did today.
- My first paper as a PhD student was on Tehran’s Ekbatan complex. While a few scholars have written about it, I also learned so much through the active residents’ communities online. Today, I see their shared sadness over the passing of its dev/architect, Rahman Golzar Shabestari.
- Hilarious our discussion of the one-humped camel WAS ACTUALLY SUPER RELEVANT!! 😂 Just a reminder, the dromedary camel is indigenous to the Arabia/Middle East region, unlike the Bactrian camel, which is from Central Asia! #civ7
- Casa de Contratación has been demoted to a unique building for Spain in #civ7, and is no longer a wonder! Fun fact, this building is only where the archives of the agency is today held, and originally was housed at the Alcázar of Seville.
- Not only is Qajar art understudied, but often the focus of this period is on Iran's relationship with European art. In my own research, I hope to bring the Ottoman and Qajar artistic cultures in conversation. For example: 1/3
I think Qajar art is seriously underrated by art historians, as the Qajar period in general by historians of Iran, both in Iran and in Western academia. As an outsider (an Ottomanist) I find this episode of Iranian history extremely interesting and creative. - This is why this Persian-nosed lady loves potatoAll women's noses are beautiful, I will not be taking questions, begone rhinoplasty demon
- I know it’s a little late for nowruz feels, but I just submitted my prospectus and it feels like a new day to me!! 🌞🌻
