Iranian Camp Attacked by Night, Persian miniature art from Shahnameh by Ferdowsi, available with frame and range of color options
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Note: despite the best efforts, due the age of the painting, please except a few areas that are deteriorated in color or design as shown in the photos
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ABOUT THE PAINTING
Following a rout at the hands of the Iranians, the army of Turan regrouped and planned its attack. Before the battle could begin, the Turanians learned that the whole Iranian army was in its cups, drunkenly celebrating its victory. Taking the Iranians by surprise, the Turanians attacked their encampment, slaughtering the besotted soldiers as the few survivors fled in disarray. The artist Qadimi has captured the chaos of the melee with Iranians trapped amidst tents and terrified horses as the Turanians attack them with swords, daggers, and spears.
These miniatures were hand-painted by the artists of the royal workshop in Tabriz under rulers Shah Ismail I and Shah Tahmasp I. Upon its completion, the Shahnameh was gifted to Ottoman Sultan Selim II in 1568. The page size is about 48 x 32 cm, and the text written in Nastaʿlīq script of the highest quality. The manuscript was broken up in the 1970s and pages are now in a number of different collections around the world.
With its 50,000 rhyming couplets, the Shahnameh, or “Book of Kings,” is one of the most voluminous epics of world literature. The poem narrates the history of the ancient kings of Iran from the mythical beginnings to the Arab conquest in 651 A.D. It was completed around 1010 A.D. by Abul-Qâsem Ferdowsi (935–1020), and was dedicated to the Ghaznavid ruler Mahmud of Ghazni (r. 998–1030), who had succeeded in gaining power over eastern Iran and modern-day Afghanistan by the end of the tenth century.
The Shahnameh of Shah Tahmasp (r. 1524–76), also known as the Shahnameh Shahi, is arguably the most luxuriously illustrated copy of Ferdowsi’s epic ever produced in the history of Persian painting (1970.301.21). Its pages, with outstanding measurements for an illustrated book, are made of fine paper enriched with large gold-sprinkled borders and lavish illuminations. Accompanying the 759 folios of text, written in superb nasta‘liq script, are 258 paintings of exquisite quality and artistic originality.
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