"Isfandiyar's Third Course: He Slays a Dragon", Folio 434v from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp. Artist: Painting attributed to Qasim ibn 'Ali (active ca. 1525-60). Author: Abu'l Qasim Firdausi (935-1020). Dimensions: Painting: H. 11 in. (27.9 cm) W. 10 5/16 in. (26.2 cm)Page: H. 18 5/8 in. (47.3 cm)W. 12 1/2 in. (31.8 cm)Mat: H. 22 in. (55.9 cm) W. 16 in. (40.6 cm)Mat: H. 22 in. (55.9 cm)W. 16 in. (40.6 cm). Date: ca. 1530.This dramatic image illustrates the third of seven challenges, or courses, that Prince Isfandiyar underwent en route to freeing his sisters from captivity in Turan. Learning that he would encounter a dragon on his perilous path, Isfandiyar ordered a horse-drawn cart with a box in which he could hide and from which spears projected. Here, the dragon has appeared and is sucking the horses into its maw, soon to be impaled on the spears and slashed by Isfandiyar's sword. The tightly coiled dragon slithering through the rocks and breathing fire lends

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"Isfandiyar's Third Course: He Slays a Dragon", Folio 434v from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp. Artist: Painting attributed to Qasim ibn 'Ali (active ca. 1525-60). Author: Abu'l Qasim Firdausi (935-1020). Dimensions: Painting: H. 11 in. (27.9 cm) W. 10 5/16 in. (26.2 cm)Page: H. 18 5/8 in. (47.3 cm)W. 12 1/2 in. (31.8 cm)Mat: H. 22 in. (55.9 cm) W. 16 in. (40.6 cm)Mat: H. 22 in. (55.9 cm)W. 16 in. (40.6 cm). Date: ca. 1530.This dramatic image illustrates the third of seven challenges, or courses, that Prince Isfandiyar underwent en route to freeing his sisters from captivity in Turan. Learning that he would encounter a dragon on his perilous path, Isfandiyar ordered a horse-drawn cart with a box in which he could hide and from which spears projected. Here, the dragon has appeared and is sucking the horses into its maw, soon to be impaled on the spears and slashed by Isfandiyar's sword. The tightly coiled dragon slithering through the rocks and breathing fire lends

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