Folio Painting from the Safavid Shahnama of Shah Tahmasp
Item
Title
Folio Painting from the Safavid Shahnama of Shah Tahmasp
Description
This manuscript folio, illustrated in the Safavid Shahnama of Shah Tahmasp, is another example of an illustrated manuscript, similar to The Great Mongol Shahnama, which has a great number of illustrated episodes from Firdawsi's Shahnama. The Shahnama of Shah Tahmasp is, in the entire history of Iranian art, considered to have the grandest scale of illustrations, and this folio painting is one of the various examples in this illustrated manuscript.
Creator
Mirza Muhammad Qabahat
Temporal Coverage
ca. 1525-1530
Spatial Coverage
Tabriz, Iran
Type
Image
Date Created
Unknown
Source
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/452144
Contributor
Isaac Norten
Rights
Metropolitan Museum of Art
