A Life Painted in Gold In the heart of Tehran, within the era of the Qajar dynasty, a child was born into an Armenian family that carried the traditions of New Julfa. Clara Abkar did not merely grow up surrounded by beauty; she sought to capture its very essence through the delicate medium of miniature painting. Her early years were shaped by the classrooms of the Davotian school, where the seeds of her talent were first sown under the…