![Bahram Gur Visits the Princess of India in the Black Pavilion (recto): Illustration and Text, Persian Verses, from a manuscript of the Khamsa of Nizami, Haft Paykar [Seven Portraits]](https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1944.486.a/1944.486.a_web.jpg)
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Bahram Gur Visits the Princess of India in the Black Pavilion (recto): Illustration and Text, Persian Verses, from a manuscript of the Khamsa of Nizami, Haft Paykar [Seven Portraits]
- Date
- c. 1400–1410
- Medium
- opaque watercolor and ink on paper
- Culture
- Iran, possibly Tabriz or Shiraz, Timurid Period, early 15th century
- Department
- Islamic Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 123987
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
The Khamsa, a suite of five poems written by Nizami in the 12th century, recounts the history and legends of pre-Islamic Iran with an emphasis on love rather than war. Here, in an early extant depiction of a favorite story, Shah Bahram Gur visits a princess in a black pavilion; this is one of seven paintings depicting the king visiting one of his seven wives, each in a different colored pavilion, on successive days of the week. The princess is shown telling a story after a day of lovemaking.
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- Credit line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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