Chehel Sotoun is one of the historical structures of Isfahan. Its area is about 67000 square meter and was built in Shah Abbas I Dynasty. There is a building in the middle of the structure.
This building and the garden contains the middle gallery of Chehel Sotoun and its four corner rooms. This structure has twenty pillars but their specular reflection on water popularize them as Chehel (=forty) Sotoun (= pillar).
There are lots of beautiful paintings on the ceiling and galleries.
There are also some eye-catching miniature paintings, mirror works, stucco works, Naskh calligraphy inscriptions on walls and ceiling.
Chehel Sotoun paintings
Chehel Sottoun Paintings present Iran architecture, design and decoration.
None of the paintings have signature or date except middle painting of the main gallery, Sadeq Naqqash Bashi as “Ya Sadeqalvad”, and a date,1216 AH, in Qajar Dynasty.
Chehel Sotoun is being divided into four categories according to its paintings, which are;
1. Historical scenes of the relationship between the Safavid Dynasty and its eastern neighbors in Baram Gallery.
2. Scenes of the ceremonies and hunting on the upper hallway of the gallery.
3. Scenes of royal ceremonies, in Ghazal and literature concepts, hanged on two side room shelves.
4. Scenes of foreigners in Safavid Crown on side columned galleries.
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