"Bahram Gur's Skill with the Bow", Folio 17v from a Haft Paikar (Seven Portraits) of the Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami. Author: Nizami (Ilyas Abu Muhammad Nizam al-Din of Ganja) (probably 1141-1217). Calligrapher: Maulana Azhar (d. 1475/76). Dimensions: Painting: H. 7 13/16 in. (19.8 cm) W. 6 3/4 in. (17.1 cm)Page: H. 11 in. (27.9 cm) W. 7 3/16 in. (18.3 cm)Mat: H. 19 1/4 in. (48.9 cm) W. 14 1/4 in. (36.2 cm). Date: ca. 1430.Depicting the Persian hero Bahram Gur hunting with his harp-playing companion Azada, this painting is one of five illustrations created for a fifteenth-century manuscript of Nizami's Haft Paikar (Seven Portraits). The manuscript was produced in the celebrated kitabkhana (workshop) established by the Timurid prince Baisunghur (r. ca. 1420-33) during his governorship at Herat. This important workshop created some of the canonical illustrations to Nizami's text--immediately recognizable, repeated, and emulated over the subsequent centuries. Museum: Metropolitan Mus

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"Bahram Gur's Skill with the Bow", Folio 17v from a Haft Paikar (Seven Portraits) of the Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami. Author: Nizami (Ilyas Abu Muhammad Nizam al-Din of Ganja) (probably 1141-1217). Calligrapher: Maulana Azhar (d. 1475/76). Dimensions: Painting: H. 7 13/16 in. (19.8 cm) W. 6 3/4 in. (17.1 cm)Page: H. 11 in. (27.9 cm) W. 7 3/16 in. (18.3 cm)Mat: H. 19 1/4 in. (48.9 cm) W. 14 1/4 in. (36.2 cm). Date: ca. 1430.Depicting the Persian hero Bahram Gur hunting with his harp-playing companion Azada, this painting is one of five illustrations created for a fifteenth-century manuscript of Nizami's Haft Paikar (Seven Portraits). The manuscript was produced in the celebrated kitabkhana (workshop) established by the Timurid prince Baisunghur (r. ca. 1420-33) during his governorship at Herat. This important workshop created some of the canonical illustrations to Nizami's text--immediately recognizable, repeated, and emulated over the subsequent centuries. Museum: Metropolitan Mus

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