| ID |
Image |
Oil Pantings, Sorted from A to Z |
Other Information |
| 34191 |
|
A dervish awed by a prince s tajalli |
mk90
Illustration to Attar\'s Parliament of Fowles
Usually attributed to Bihzad
|
| 34197 |
|
A dervish begs to be admitted in the mosque |
mk90
Illustration by Bihzad for the Bustan
|
| 34228 |
|
A holy personage at the gate of a shrine consoles a son over his father-s death |
mk90
The Disposition of the shrine is reminiscent of Ansaris Tomb at Gazurgah,to the northeast of Herat
|
| 34229 |
|
A peasant lectures the sage Abu Sa Id ibn Abi l Khayr,the shaykh of Mahneh.on patience |
mk90
Illustration by Bihzad to Attar\'s Parliament of Fowles
c.1487-88
|
| 34193 |
|
A Poor dervish deserves,through his wisdom,to replace the arrogant cadi in the mosque |
mk90
Illustration by Bihzad for the Bustan
|
| 34186 |
|
A shaykh in the prayer niche of a mosque |
mk90
Detail of an illustration by Bihzad for sa di\'s Bustan
Herat
1488-89
|
| 34247 |
|
Abduction from the seraglio |
mk90
IN this Entfuhrung aus dem Serail,the cuckolded king on the beach notches arrwo to bowstring,while his fair one escapes with her lover by ship.
|
| 34215 |
|
Alexander and the hermit |
mk90
Illustration by Bihzad to Nizami s Alexander romance
Herat
1494-95
British Library
|
| 34203 |
|
Alexander or Sikandar annuls the magic of the malevolent idol at the entrance to the ocean |
mk90
While the wise Apollonius or Balinas consults his astrolabe.
|
| 34226 |
|
Archangel,a symbol of the divine Active Intelligence |
mk90
in the first half of the sixteenth century.
|
| 34220 |
|
Brahman transformed into demons |
mk90
Qocho,eighth or ninth century
|
| 34120 |
|
Building ot Castle Khawarnaq,wherein the chamber of the seven icons will be hidden |
mk90
illustration by Bihzad to Nizamis Seven Lcons.
|
| 34175 |
|
Building the Great Mosque of Samarkand |
mk90
Illustration by Bilzad |
| 34121 |
|
Caliph al-Ma-mun in his bath |
mk90
illustration by Bihzad to Nizami\'s
Treasury of Secets.
|
| 34145 |
|
Capture of a city |
mk90
unfinished illustration
attributed to Bihzad
c.1490
|
| 34128 |
|
Details from Caliph al Ma mun in his bath |
mk90
|
| 34129 |
|
Details from Caliph al Ma mun in his bath |
mk90
|
| 34219 |
|
Fragment of a Manichaean manuscript,with the Hindu gods Ganesh,Vishnu |
mk90
Qocho.
Eighth or ninth century
|
| 34185 |
|
His Ministers plead with the Sasanian king Hurmuzd to forgive his son Khusro |
mk90
Illustration attributed to Bihzad from the romance Prince Kusro and Queen Shirin in Nizami\'s Khamseh copied for the Timurid emir Ali Farsi Barlas
Herat
1494-95
|
| 34218 |
|
Jami as Apollonius and the minister Mir Ali Sher Nawa i as Alexander |
mk90
Annul the magic of the talisman statue.
Detail from an illustration by Bihzad
|
| 34196 |
|
King Darius and the Herdsman |
mk90
Illustration by Bihzad for the Bustan
|
| 34224 |
|
Mahan s diabolic horse |
mk90
a Symbolic of his own unleashed impulses,changes between his legs into a seven headed dragon in the valley of the demons |
| 34182 |
|
Old man and youth |
mk90
Apparently signed by Bihzad,Illustration for an anthology of Poetry.
|
| 34199 |
|
Portrait of jami leaning on a staff,with another scholar of Sultan Husayn-s court |
mk90
Detail of a painting by Bihzad
1494-95
|
| 34179 |
|
Portrait of the poet Hatifi,Jami s nephew,seen here wearing a shi ite turban |
mk90
Painting by Bihzad,Herat
1511
|
| 34180 |
|
Portrait of the Uzbek emir Shaybani Khan,seen here wearing a Sunni turban |
mk90
Attributed in the upper margin to Bihzad
Herat 1507-10
|
| 34170 |
|
Sikanar overcomes the Hosts of Dara |
mk90
Illustration by Bihzad to the Sharaf Nameh The Book of Nobility
The first part of Nizami\'s Alexander romance,Khamseh.
|
| 34173 |
|
Study |
mk90
Attrbuted to Bihzad,for a portrati of Sultan Husayn Mirza.
|
| 34137 |
|
Sultan Sanjar and the wildow |
mk90
Illustration to Nizami s Treasury of Secrets |
| 34184 |
|
Tamerlane leading the assault of the castle of the knights of the Hospitallers of Saint john at Smyrna |
mk90
Illustration by Bihzad or his workshop for the Zafar Nameh
|
| 34217 |
|
The Crescent moon turned downwards |
mk90
Detail from Alexander and the Hermit |
| 34192 |
|
The Gatekeeper denies entrance by one unworthy of the garden |
mk90
Details of the Frontispiece to the Bustan
by Mirak or Bihzad,Samen Manuscript |
| 34163 |
|
The Master of the garden espies the maidens bathing in his pool |
mk90
Illustration by Bihzad to Nizami\'s Tale of the Princess of the White Pavilion.
|
| 34188 |
|
The poet Nizami |
mk90
Detail of an illustration attributed to Bihzad for Nizami\'s Layli and Majnun
Herat
1494-95
|
| 34237 |
|
The saintly Bishr fishes up the corpse of the blaspheming Malikha from the magic well which is the fount fo life |
mk90
The Tree of Life bows over the saint
on the left,a demon rock twists in agony
|
| 34246 |
|
The suicide of the artist Farhad,forbidden union with the lovely Shirin |
mk90
Beneath the withered stumps which symbolize dammed souls |
| 34206 |
|
the theophany through Layli sitting framed within the prayer niche |
mk90
1494-95
|
| 34236 |
|
The Tree of Life springs from the fount and bows over the saint |
mk90
Detail of Bihzad\'s Alexander and the hermit
|
| 34149 |
|
Timur enthroned |
mk90
Illustration by Bihzad
|
| 34133 |
|
Timur enthroned and holding the white kerchief of rule |
mk90
for the Zafar Nameh |
| 34198 |
|
Zulaykha attempts to seduce joseph in her palace |
mk90
Illustration by Bihzad for the Bustan |
