Shahnameh — Yazdegird I and the Water Horse | Persian Miniature Art Print

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Shahnameh — Yazdegird I and the Water Horse | 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

harlequins

producing works of lyrical line and gestural freedom that occupy a unique space between European modernism and American expressionism

at any hour

Abu'l Hasan — working under direct royal supervision on portraits

His flower paintings and mythological subjects in pastel are works of extraordinary chromatic richness

making him the most recognisable Post-Impressionist painter in history

radical colour choices

Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797–1861) was the most inventive and theatrically daring of the great Edo-period ukiyo-e masters — the artist of warriors

The Heart — are now among the most iconic and collected prints of the 20th century

is a canonical work of Art Deco graphic design

Symbolist allegory

and quiet wit