1530 (ca.), Qadimi and 'Abd al-Vahhab (attributed), Kai Khusrau is Discovered by Giv (from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp) -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
From the museum label:
After a seven-year search for the future shah, the persistent Iranian knight Giv finally discovered the prince Kai Khusrau. Faithful to the story, the painting features an idyllic spring landscape, the remoteness of which is indicated by the barren hill in the background. The black pool next to Kai Khusrau and the stream flowing from it would have originally been silver, which has now tarnished.
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 and 'Abd al-Vahhab (attributed), Kai Khusrau is Discovered by Giv (from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp) -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
From the museum label:
After a seven-year search for the future shah, the persistent Iranian knight Giv finally discovered the prince Kai Khusrau. Faithful to the story, the painting features an idyllic spring landscape, the remoteness of which is indicated by the barren hill in the background. The black pool next to Kai Khusrau and the stream flowing from it would have originally been silver, which has now tarnished.
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.