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Bahram Gur Hunting, a miniature by Muẓaffar ʿAlī in the Khamseh of Neẓāmī created for Shah Ṭahmasp I, 1539–43; in the British Library, London (Or. MS 2265, fol. 211r).
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Flourished c.1540 - c.1576
Movement / Style Islamic arts

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Bahram Gur Hunting, a miniature by Muẓaffar ʿAlī in the Khamseh of Neẓāmī created for Shah Ṭahmasp I, 1539–43; in the British Library, London (Or. MS 2265, fol. 211r).
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“The Building of the Famous Castle of Khawarnaq,” miniature by Behzād, c. 1494, from the Khamseh of Neẓāmī; in the British Library (OR. MS. 6810 fol 154v)
Behzād
Persian painter
Sulṭān Muḥammad: “The Feast of Sada” in the Shāh-nāmeh
Sulṭān Muḥammad
Persian painter
Aḥmad Mūsā
Iranian painter
Yaḥyā ibn Maḥmūd al-Wāsiṭī
Iraqi painter
Abdülcelil Levnî
Ottoman painter
The Portrait of Khosrow Is Shown to Shīrīn, miniature by Muḥammadī in the Khamseh of Neẓāmī created for Shah Ṭahmāsp I, 1539–43; in the British Library, London (Or. MS 2265, fol. 48v).
Muḥammadī
Persian painter
“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
Rezā ʿAbbāsī: The Lovers
Rezā ʿAbbāsī
Persian painter
Āqā Mīrak
Persian painter
“Joshua and the Fall of Jericho” from Flavius Josephus' Antiquités judaïques, manuscript illuminated by Jean Fouquet, c. 1474; in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris (Ms. Fr. 247)
Jean Fouquet
French painter
Pucelle, Jean: The Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux
Jean Pucelle
French artist
“Giulio Clovio,” portrait by El Greco, c. 1570; in the Museo e Gallerie Nazionali di Capodimonte, Naples
Giulio Clovio
Italian painter and priest
Khwāja ʿAbd-uṣ-Ṣamad
Persian painter
“Mejnūn Being Brought by a Beggar Woman to Leylā's Tent,” miniature by Mīr Sayyid ʿAlī in the Khamseh of Neẓāmī done for Shāh Ṭahmāsp I, 1539–43; in the British Library (OR. MS. 2265 fol 157v)
Mīr Sayyid ʿAli
Persian painter
Jean de Limbourg
Flemish artist
Paul de Limbourg
Flemish artist
Herman de Limbourg
Flemish artist
Tower of the Rising Clouds, colour on silk by Mi Fu; in the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Mi Fu
Chinese artist
Wu Changshuo
Chinese artist
Dong Qichang
Chinese artist

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