The Army of Shah Ramin Attacking the Iron Fortress, Page from a Manuscript of Tuhfat al-Lata'if (The Best of Subtleties)

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The Army of Shah Ramin Attacking the Iron Fortress, Page from a Manuscript of Tuhfat al-Lata'if (The Best of Subtleties)

Turkey, 1593-1594/1002 A.H.
Manuscripts; folios
Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
12 5/8 × 14 11/16 in. (32.07 × 37.31 cm) Frame: 23 × 19 × 1 1/2 in. (58.42 × 48.26 × 3.81 cm)
The Edwin Binney, 3rd, Collection of Turkish Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (M.85.237.41)
Art of the Middle East: Islamic and Contemporary
Not currently on public view

Curator Notes

While sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Ottoman court artists were principally engaged in creating documentary-style illustrations for dynastic histories and chronicles of recent battles (see M.85.23...
While sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Ottoman court artists were principally engaged in creating documentary-style illustrations for dynastic histories and chronicles of recent battles (see M.85.237.42), they were occasionally commissioned to produce paintings for works of literature. This illustration comes from one such manuscript made for the Ottoman Sultan Murad III (r. 1574–95); the focal point of the text is the romance between Shah Ramin, son of the King of Ghazni, and Mah-Parvin, the daughter of the king’s evil vizier, Shahruz. The double-page composition, depicting Shah Ramin’s army pursuing Shahruz, draws on the illustrative tradition of Ottoman chronicles, complete with detailed portrayals of the soldiers, their weapons, and the architecture of the cityscape.
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