Bijan killing the wild boars of Irman, from a Shah-nama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi (Persian, about 934–1020)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Bijan killing the wild boars of Irman, from a Shah-nama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi (Persian, about 934–1020)

Date
c. 1610
Medium
Gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper
Culture
India, Bijapur, Deccan
Department
Indian and Southeast Asian Art
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art

Trappings of Byzantine brocade were gifts to the hero who slays the wild boars.

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