Shahnameh — Isfandiyar Slaying the Dragon | Persian Miniature Art Print

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Shahnameh — Isfandiyar Slaying the Dragon | Persian Miniature 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

They are documents of place and time as much as works of art

The tradition produced some of the most formally sophisticated and emotionally subtle images in the history of art: women at mirrors

and decorative design in Interwar Vienna

His works epitomize shin-hanga's marriage of traditional ukiyo-e technique with modernist sensibility

Ramon Casas (1866–1932) was the leading Spanish modernista painter and illustrator of his generation

he produced striking compositions of circles

her work is inseparable from the idea of American landscape art

Bernard spent much of his career in the shadow of those he helped — making him one of the great hidden figures of modern art history

who spent much of his career in Europe

It remains one of the finest vintage motorsport posters ever produced

and the poetry of travel to every composition

and allegorical compositions of extraordinary refinement