Secretary of the council, Mohammad Reza Mokhber Dezfouli, said the proposal for this was first made by Mahmoud Farshchian, a master of Persian miniatur, the English-language newspaper 'Iran daily' reported on Monday.
The great artist is to preside over the academy, Dezfouli added.
The council plans to recruit students as of September 2014, the beginning of the new academic year in Iran.
Farshchian’s masterpieces have been hosted by several museums and exhibitions worldwide. He is the vanguard of miniatures, an art form first established in ancient Persia and later spread to China and Turkey and other Middle East countries.
In 2000, Cambridge named him an outstanding intellectual of the 21st century.
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Tehran, March 17, IRNA - The High Council of Cultural Revolution has approved the establishment of the Islamic-Iranian Miniature Academy.
