Iranian art encompasses many disciplines, including architecture, painting, weaving, pottery, calligraphy, metalworking, and stonemasonry. The Median and Achaemenid empires left a significant classical art scene which remained as basic influences for the art of the later eras. Art of the Parthians was a mixture of Iranian and Hellenistic artworks, with their main motifs being scenes of royal hunting expeditions and investitures. The Sassanid art played a prominent role in the formation of both European and Asian medieval art, which carried forward to the Islamic world, and much of what later became known as Islamic learning, such as philology, literature, jurisprudence, philosophy, medicine, architecture, and science, were of Sassanid basis.
The Achaemind Empire along with what other group became the foundation for the art in later Iranian history? A blend of Iranian and what other type of artwork were the Parthians' art comprised of? What Iranian art played a major role in the formation of medieval art from Europe and Asia? The Sassanid became a cornerstone of what type of learning?