Shahnameh — Persian Miniature Painting | Fine Art Print

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Shahnameh — Persian Miniature Painting | Fine Art PrintThe Shahnameh (Book of Kings, c. 1010 CE) by Abu'l Qasim Firdausi (c. 9401020 CE) is the world's longest epic poem by a single author 60,000 couplets narrating the mythological and historical kings of Persia from creation to the Islamic conquest, and the foundational work of modern Persian literature. Its illustrated manuscripts, produced over five centuries in Herat, Tabriz, Shiraz, and Isfahan under Timurid, Safavid, and Mughal patronage, represent

produced for the Universal Pictures release

held in the Library of Congress

Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944) is widely regarded as the father of abstract art

and the Holy Land produced images of such photographic exactitude that viewers mistook his paintings for early photographs

the Simurgh

domestic interiors

the single confident stroke over the carefully composed composition

who spent much of his career in Europe

His imagery — angelic figures

Salomon Corrodi (1810–1892) was an Italian-Swiss landscape and Orientalist painter whose luminous views of Venice

New York City

but immediate — the brush as an extension of awakened consciousness