1530 (ca.), Qadimi (attributed), Siyavush Recounts His Nightmare to Frarngis (from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp) -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
From the museum label:
Sivavush, a Persian prince, awoke one night from a hornble nightmare. The dream, which proved to be prophetic, showed the destruction of his kingdom and foreshadowed the end of his life. Attributed to Qadimi and Mir Musavvir, the second supervisor of the Shalmama project, this folio combines the spatial logic of the Herar style with the elongated figures typical of Safavid painting under Shah Ismail.
THE SHAHNAMA (BOOK OF KINGS) OF TAHMASP
The Shahnama of Shah Tahmasp is arguably the most luxuriously illustrated manuscript of Firdausi's epic ever produced. Illustrating the 759 folios of text written in superb nasta'liq script are 258 paintings of exquisite quality and artistic originality. This project was realized at the royal atelier in Tabriz and involved the preeminent artists of the time. The pages on display represent the diversity of the manuscript's hands, styles, and themes. In 1568, Shah Tahmasp presented the manuscript to the Ottoman sultan Selim II, and in 1970, Arthur A. Houghton Jr. donated seventy-eight of its paintings to The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
1530 (ca.), Qadimi (attributed), Siyavush Recounts His Nightmare to Frarngis (from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp) -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
From the museum label:
Sivavush, a Persian prince, awoke one night from a hornble nightmare. The dream, which proved to be prophetic, showed the destruction of his kingdom and foreshadowed the end of his life. Attributed to Qadimi and Mir Musavvir, the second supervisor of the Shalmama project, this folio combines the spatial logic of the Herar style with the elongated figures typical of Safavid painting under Shah Ismail.
THE SHAHNAMA (BOOK OF KINGS) OF TAHMASP
The Shahnama of Shah Tahmasp is arguably the most luxuriously illustrated manuscript of Firdausi's epic ever produced. Illustrating the 759 folios of text written in superb nasta'liq script are 258 paintings of exquisite quality and artistic originality. This project was realized at the royal atelier in Tabriz and involved the preeminent artists of the time. The pages on display represent the diversity of the manuscript's hands, styles, and themes. In 1568, Shah Tahmasp presented the manuscript to the Ottoman sultan Selim II, and in 1970, Arthur A. Houghton Jr. donated seventy-eight of its paintings to The Metropolitan Museum of Art.