1525 (ca.), Sultan Muhammad (attributed), Tahmuras Defeats the Divs (from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp) -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
From the museum label:
Tahmuras, shown here galloping across a meadow, defeated the divs (demons); in exchange for their lives, they taught him the art of writing. This work is attributed to Sultan Muhammad, the master painter and chief administrator of the first generation of artists of this manuscript. The humor of the divs' ghastly faces and gestures and the painterly treatment of their spotty skin are typical of Sultan Muhammad's style.
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.
1525 (ca.), Sultan Muhammad (attributed), Tahmuras Defeats the Divs (from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp) -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
From the museum label:
Tahmuras, shown here galloping across a meadow, defeated the divs (demons); in exchange for their lives, they taught him the art of writing. This work is attributed to Sultan Muhammad, the master painter and chief administrator of the first generation of artists of this manuscript. The humor of the divs' ghastly faces and gestures and the painterly treatment of their spotty skin are typical of Sultan Muhammad's style.
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.