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Shah Isma'il on an Equestrian Hunting Expedition
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This folio has been detached from a manuscript of the Tārikh-i ʿālamārā-yi Shāh Ismaʿīl (World-adorning History of Shah Ismaʿil). Seven lines of Persian in nastaliq script frame a painting of figures on horseback in a landscape. A princely rider-the only personage given full-figure treatment-is the focus of attention. From the surrounding text, he can be identified as the young Ismail I (d. 1524), first ruler of the Safavid dynasty (1501-1722). Considerably younger and more richly dressed than the over-lapping, half-length figures, Isma'il is further set off from his followers by his isolation in the composition.
Department of Islamic & Later Indian Art
Purchased from Hurst Gallery Cambridge Mass.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Benjamin and Lilian Hertzberg Purchase Fund and purchase through the generosity of Roben and Shlomit Talasazan Abolala Soudavar and David N. Silich
Title: Shah Isma'il on an Equestrian Hunting Expedition
Description:
This folio has been detached from a manuscript of the Tārikh-i ʿālamārā-yi Shāh Ismaʿīl (World-adorning History of Shah Ismaʿil).
Seven lines of Persian in nastaliq script frame a painting of figures on horseback in a landscape.
A princely rider-the only personage given full-figure treatment-is the focus of attention.
From the surrounding text, he can be identified as the young Ismail I (d.
1524), first ruler of the Safavid dynasty (1501-1722).
Considerably younger and more richly dressed than the over-lapping, half-length figures, Isma'il is further set off from his followers by his isolation in the composition.
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