Sujet
Balustrade Fragment with Animals, 1303-1304. Creator: Unknown.
Légende
Balustrade Fragment with Animals, 1303-1304. This architectural relief shows a lion attacking a bull surrounded by other predators pursuing their prey, with scrolling vegetal motifs filling the spaces between. Scenes of powerful predators in the act of hunting and capturing other animals echo the royal imagery of pre-Islamic Iran. This piece was part of a balustrade in a private home; the owner and construction date are known from another fragment from the same building. The building was embellished when the Mongols controlled Iran, and the relief shows a continuity in style from carvings made during the preceding Turkic Seljuk period (1037-1194). Under Turkic and Mongol rule in Iran, Islamic injunctions against making figural imagery were loosened.
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Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art
Notre référence
HRM19F70_329
Model release
NA
Property release
NA
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
134,4Mo (5,5Mo) / 66,3cm x 50,8cm / 7829 x 6000 (300dpi)