Nushirvan Receives an Embassy from the Khaqan, Page from a Manuscript of the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdawsi

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Nushirvan Receives an Embassy from the Khaqan, Page from a Manuscript of the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdawsi

Iran, Tabriz, circa 1530-35
Manuscripts; folios
Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
18 5/8 x 12 11/16 in. (47.3075 x 32.2263 cm) Frame: 23 × 19 × 1 1/2 in. (58.42 × 48.26 × 3.81 cm)
Gift of the 1989 Collectors Committee (M.89.55)
Art of the Middle East: Islamic and Contemporary
Not currently on public view

Curator Notes

This page comes from a manuscript whose size, scale, and quality make it one of the most luxurious Islamic books ever created—a now-dispersed copy of the Shahnama made for Shah Tahmasp (r....
This page comes from a manuscript whose size, scale, and quality make it one of the most luxurious Islamic books ever created—a now-dispersed copy of the Shahnama made for Shah Tahmasp (r. 1524–76) in his capital, Tabriz, in northwestern Iran. The manuscript originally included innumerable illuminations; more than one thousand pages of text, all with gold-flecked borders; and 258 illustrations, which use formalized conventions to depict a type of idealized world first perfected in Persian painting more than a century earlier. Here the rich colors of the costumes and the architectural decoration, the sedate poses of the figures, and the carefully contrived landscape and gold sky create a most suitable, if unreal, setting for a royal audience.
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Bibliography

  • Komaroff, Linda. Gifts of the Sultan: the Arts of Giving at the Islamic Courts. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2011.
  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art.  New York: Thames and Hudson, 2003.
  • Komaroff, Linda. Gifts of the Sultan: the Arts of Giving at the Islamic Courts. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2011.
  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art.  New York: Thames and Hudson, 2003.
  • Komaroff, Linda.  Islamic Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.  Los Angeles:  Museum Associates, 2005.
  • Mariani, Phil, ed. The Shahnama of Shah Tahmasp: the Persian Book of Kings. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven: Distributed by Yale University Press, 2011.
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