Isa Bahadori

Bahadori's great tend for Isfahan city, as a city of traditional persian arts, caused he move there as a researching travel to learn about tiles and paintings on historical buildings. Then he get implyeed in this city ni 1936 as administrator of fine art school in Isfahan. He worked and tought many talented art students there (such as Mahmoud farshchian and Rostam Shirazi) in different fields of traditional Persian arts like miniaature, carpet designing and traditional designs.

Isa Bahadori started his artistic activities as a painter, learning fundamentals of painting in the best art school at his times. He was one of the modern painters in Iran who were adroit in realistic painting and also abstract miniature paintings of Iran. This is one of his famous realistic paints from the traditional central mosque in Isfahan called "Jameh mosque" in Naqsh-e jahan square. Like this painting, Bahadori trues to show beautiful Persian cultures and architectures by the common principles of European paintings.

To beautify the named hospital, the municipality of the Isfahan city in Iran asked Bahadori for an appropriate artwork. As he was a researcher of Persian traditional arts, skilled in traditional designs and tiles, he created a wonderful tile works that includes both Persian and Christian symbols. Bahadori tried to look for Christian symbols because this hospital had established for the Christian of Isfahan, so he used the common cross form with Persian motifs as tiles on the wall of the hospital.