Imperial Portraits and Costume from Ancient Assyria to Qajar Iran As Ritual Performance

Ira Spar

Monday, December 16, 2013

The Coffee House Club
20 West 44th St
6th Floor
NY NY 10036

Doors open 6:00pm
Lecture 6:45pm

Ira Spar will lecture on “Imperial Portraits and Costume from Ancient Assyria to Qajar Iran As Ritual Performance”.

Professor Spar, a longtime member of the Hajji Baba Club, teaches Ancient History at Ramapo College of New Jersey. He is the Research Assyriologist for the Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He is also a collector of late 18th and 19th century French Provence Costume.