Sujet
Royal Reception in a Landscape, right folio from a double-page frontispiece..., 1444. Creator: Unknown.
Légende
Royal Reception in a Landscape, right folio from a double-page frontispiece of a Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi (940-1019 or 1025), 1444. The painting on the verso of this folio is the first half of a double-page frontispiece now detached from a Shahnama (Book of Kings) manuscript. CMA 1956.10 is the left half of the frontispiece. As though setting the scene for royal stories and activities, these two opening pages of Iran?s national epic present a luxurious gathering in an idyllic outdoor setting. Groups of nobles and international diplomats have come bearing gifts, including costly vessels and hunting animals. At the upper right, seemingly uninterested in the emissaries and gifts, a prince kneels with six royal women under an open tent. He pulls one of them toward him, apparently to coax her to drink a cup of wine. At the bottom a musician plays a harp that has been mounted over a stream, painted with now tarnished silver paint. Drama and intrigue seem to be brewing, given the knowing glances and whispers between figures.
Date
0
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art
Notre référence
HRM19G02_280
Model release
NA
Property release
NA
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
88,2Mo (7,1Mo) / 39,1cm x 56,5cm / 4624 x 6668 (300dpi)