Rustam's seventh course: He kills the White Div, folio 124 from a Shah-nama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi (Persian, about 934–1020)

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Rustam's seventh course: He kills the White Div, folio 124 from a Shah-nama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi (Persian, about 934–1020)

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Date
1522–37
Medium
Gum tempera, ink, gold, and silver on paper
Culture
Iran, Tabriz, Safavid period (1501-1722)
Department
Islamic Art
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID
154289

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The legendary hero Rustam brutally takes the demon chief’s liver blood, needed to cure his king of blindness. Paintings from the Shah-nama made for the Persian ruler Shah Tahmasp (reigned 1524–76) were acclaimed in their day for their brilliant coloring and refinement. Seven of the artists who contributed to this book moved to India to lead the new Mughal painting workshop in the 1550s. They introduced to the Indian artists a more complex color sensibility and preference for presenting faces in three-quarter view, as opposed to in profile. Devils in the details: three peer into the White Div’s lair by the Caspian Sea.

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Credit line
Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund
Provenance
1520s–1567: Shah Tahmasp شاه تهماسب یکم‎ [1514–1576], Iran, given to Ottoman Sultan Selim II | 1567–?: Ottoman Sultan Selim II [1524–1574], Istanbul, Ottoman Empire | until early 1900s: Topkapı Palace library, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire | early 1900s–?: Baron Edmond de Rothschild [1845–1934], Boulogne-Billancourt, France | ?–October 14, 1988: Arthur A. Houghton, Jr. [1906–1990] | October 14, 1988: (Christie's, London, England, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) | 1988–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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