Qajar era’s architecture is the historical chapter of Iran’s architecture detachment from the prior traditions and its synchronization with the western civilization’s accomplishments. Numerous factors have been effective in the formation of Qajar era’s artworks with the art and governmental policies’ relations accounting for a large quotient of these factors. The two essential questions that the present article has been formed in line with finding answers to them are the quality of the art and governmental policies’ relations during Qajar era and factors influencing these relations. The present article uses a descriptive-analytical method to investigate the way the governors in Qajar era treated the artists and architects and the art-governmental policies’ relations in regard of the architecture in the city of Talesh. The obtained results are indicative of the idea that the governmental policies-art interactions are in the format of the governmental policies’ support of the architecture as well as art and governmental policies’ confrontation in some cases and the examples of this conflict can be found in the critical contents of the artworks. In fact, the government’s political interests and expediencies and the Qajar sultans’ desires, on the one hand, and the intellectual and political tendencies of the art fellows, on the other hand, are amongst the factors influencing the evolution of the relationship between art and governmental policies in this era in the architecture of such cities as Gilan and Talesh.
