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Also Known As Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Hilāl ibn al-Bawwāb • Ibn as-Sitrī
Born 975 or 1000 • Iraq
Died 1022 • 1031 • Baghdad • Iraq
Movement / Style Islamic arts
Qi Baishi
Chinese painter
Ibn Muqlah
Islamic calligrapher
Muẓaffar ʿAlī
Persian artist
illustration from Kitāb al-aghānī (“The Book of Songs”) by Abū al-Faraj al-Iṣbahānī
Abū al-Faraj al-Iṣbahānī
Muslim scholar
“Fight Between Humāy and Humāyūn,” miniature painted by Junayd for the Khamseh of Khwājū Kermānī, 1396; in the British Library (MS. Add 18113, fol 23a)
Junayd
Islamic painter
Tower of the Rising Clouds, colour on silk by Mi Fu; in the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Mi Fu
Chinese artist
Poggio Bracciolini, Gian Francesco
Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini
Italian scholar
Wu Changshuo
Chinese artist
Dong Qichang
Chinese artist
Huizong
emperor of Song dynasty
Manuscript copy sheet by Edward Johnston, 1918; in the Newberry Library, Chicago.
Edward Johnston
British calligrapher
Khwāja ʿAbd-uṣ-Ṣamad
Persian painter
Fraktur fonts
Rudolf Koch
German artist
Ike Taiga
Japanese painter
Huang Tingjian
Chinese poet and calligrapher
Wen Zhengming
Chinese artist
Esther Inglis
Scottish calligrapher
Zhao Mengfu: Twin Pines, Level Distance
Zhao Mengfu
Chinese painter
W.A. Dwiggins
American artist
Shōkadō Shōjō
Japanese artist