Persian poetry, painting & patronage
illustrations in a sixteenth-century masterpiece
by Marianna Shreve Simpson
"Commissioned by Prince Sultan Ibrahim Mirza in 1556, five Iranian court calligraphers devoted nine years to transcribing the poetic text of the great Persian classic, the Haft awrang (Seven thrones), by the mystical poet Abdul-Rahman Jami. Then a team of gifted artists undertook the illumination and illustration of the manuscript. The masterpiece they created - housed today in the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and known as the Freer Jami - is a sumptuous volume of some three hundred folios of elegant cursive script with richly decorated margins, thousands of multicolored section dividers, nine illuminated headings and nine colophons that begin and end the main divisions of the text, and twenty-eight narrative paintings. This book reproduces to scale the Freer Jami paintings, discusses each in detail, and introduces the manuscript's patron and artists, painting style and meaning."--BOOK JACKET.
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Freer Jami, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Iranian, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Islamic, Illustrations, Iranian Illumination of books and manuscripts, Islamic Illumination of books and manuscriptsPeople
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Persian poetry, painting & patronage: illustrations in a sixteenth-century masterpiece
1998, Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Yale University Press
in English
0300074832 9780300074833
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 77) and index.
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