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ID |
Image |
Painting (From A to Z) |
Details |
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34191 |
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A dervish awed by a prince s tajalli |
mk90
Illustration to Attar\'s Parliament of Fowles
Usually attributed to Bihzad
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34197 |
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A dervish begs to be admitted in the mosque |
mk90
Illustration by Bihzad for the Bustan
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34228 |
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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
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34229 |
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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
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34193 |
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A Poor dervish deserves,through his wisdom,to replace the arrogant cadi in the mosque |
mk90
Illustration by Bihzad for the Bustan
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34186 |
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A shaykh in the prayer niche of a mosque |
mk90
Detail of an illustration by Bihzad for sa di\'s Bustan
Herat
1488-89
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34247 |
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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.
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34215 |
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Alexander and the hermit |
mk90
Illustration by Bihzad to Nizami s Alexander romance
Herat
1494-95
British Library
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34203 |
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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.
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34226 |
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Archangel,a symbol of the divine Active Intelligence |
mk90
in the first half of the sixteenth century.
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34220 |
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Brahman transformed into demons |
mk90
Qocho,eighth or ninth century
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34120 |
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Building ot Castle Khawarnaq,wherein the chamber of the seven icons will be hidden |
mk90
illustration by Bihzad to Nizamis Seven Lcons.
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34175 |
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Building the Great Mosque of Samarkand |
mk90
Illustration by Bilzad |
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34121 |
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Caliph al-Ma-mun in his bath |
mk90
illustration by Bihzad to Nizami\'s
Treasury of Secets.
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34145 |
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Capture of a city |
mk90
unfinished illustration
attributed to Bihzad
c.1490
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34128 |
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Details from Caliph al Ma mun in his bath |
mk90
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34129 |
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Details from Caliph al Ma mun in his bath |
mk90
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34219 |
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Fragment of a Manichaean manuscript,with the Hindu gods Ganesh,Vishnu |
mk90
Qocho.
Eighth or ninth century
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34185 |
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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
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34218 |
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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
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34196 |
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King Darius and the Herdsman |
mk90
Illustration by Bihzad for the Bustan
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34224 |
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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 |
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34182 |
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Old man and youth |
mk90
Apparently signed by Bihzad,Illustration for an anthology of Poetry.
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34199 |
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Portrait of jami leaning on a staff,with another scholar of Sultan Husayn-s court |
mk90
Detail of a painting by Bihzad
1494-95
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34179 |
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Portrait of the poet Hatifi,Jami s nephew,seen here wearing a shi ite turban |
mk90
Painting by Bihzad,Herat
1511
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34180 |
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Portrait of the Uzbek emir Shaybani Khan,seen here wearing a Sunni turban |
mk90
Attributed in the upper margin to Bihzad
Herat 1507-10
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34170 |
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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.
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34173 |
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Study |
mk90
Attrbuted to Bihzad,for a portrati of Sultan Husayn Mirza.
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34137 |
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Sultan Sanjar and the wildow |
mk90
Illustration to Nizami s Treasury of Secrets |
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34184 |
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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
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34217 |
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The Crescent moon turned downwards |
mk90
Detail from Alexander and the Hermit |
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34192 |
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The Gatekeeper denies entrance by one unworthy of the garden |
mk90
Details of the Frontispiece to the Bustan
by Mirak or Bihzad,Samen Manuscript |
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34163 |
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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.
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34188 |
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The poet Nizami |
mk90
Detail of an illustration attributed to Bihzad for Nizami\'s Layli and Majnun
Herat
1494-95
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34237 |
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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
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34246 |
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The suicide of the artist Farhad,forbidden union with the lovely Shirin |
mk90
Beneath the withered stumps which symbolize dammed souls |
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34206 |
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the theophany through Layli sitting framed within the prayer niche |
mk90
1494-95
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34236 |
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The Tree of Life springs from the fount and bows over the saint |
mk90
Detail of Bihzad\'s Alexander and the hermit
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34149 |
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Timur enthroned |
mk90
Illustration by Bihzad
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34133 |
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Timur enthroned and holding the white kerchief of rule |
mk90
for the Zafar Nameh |
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34198 |
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Zulaykha attempts to seduce joseph in her palace |
mk90
Illustration by Bihzad for the Bustan |
