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Bihzad
The Gatekeeper denies entrance by one unworthy of the garden
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Details of the Frontispiece to the Bustan
by Mirak or Bihzad,Samen Manuscript
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Bihzad
A Poor dervish deserves,through his wisdom,to replace the arrogant cadi in the mosque
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Illustration by Bihzad for the Bustan
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Bihzad
King Darius and the Herdsman
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Illustration by Bihzad for the Bustan
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Bihzad
A dervish begs to be admitted in the mosque
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Illustration by Bihzad for the Bustan
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Bihzad
Zulaykha attempts to seduce joseph in her palace
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Illustration by Bihzad for the Bustan
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Bihzad
Portrait of jami leaning on a staff,with another scholar of Sultan Husayn-s court
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Detail of a painting by Bihzad
1494-95
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Bihzad
Alexander or Sikandar annuls the magic of the malevolent idol at the entrance to the ocean
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While the wise Apollonius or Balinas consults his astrolabe.
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Bihzad
the theophany through Layli sitting framed within the prayer niche
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1494-95
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Bihzad
Alexander and the hermit
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Illustration by Bihzad to Nizami s Alexander romance
Herat
1494-95
British Library
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Bihzad
The Crescent moon turned downwards
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Detail from Alexander and the Hermit
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Bihzad
Jami as Apollonius and the minister Mir Ali Sher Nawa i as Alexander
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Annul the magic of the talisman statue.
Detail from an illustration by Bihzad
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Bihzad
Fragment of a Manichaean manuscript,with the Hindu gods Ganesh,Vishnu
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Qocho.
Eighth or ninth century
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Brahman transformed into demons
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Qocho,eighth or ninth century
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Bihzad
Mahan s diabolic horse
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a Symbolic of his own unleashed impulses,changes between his legs into a seven headed dragon in the valley of the demons
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Bihzad
Archangel,a symbol of the divine Active Intelligence
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in the first half of the sixteenth century.
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Bihzad
A holy personage at the gate of a shrine consoles a son over his father-s death
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The Disposition of the shrine is reminiscent of Ansaris Tomb at Gazurgah,to the northeast of Herat
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Bihzad
A peasant lectures the sage Abu Sa Id ibn Abi l Khayr,the shaykh of Mahneh.on patience
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Illustration by Bihzad to Attar\'s Parliament of Fowles
c.1487-88
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Bihzad
The Tree of Life springs from the fount and bows over the saint
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Detail of Bihzad\'s Alexander and the hermit
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Bihzad
The saintly Bishr fishes up the corpse of the blaspheming Malikha from the magic well which is the fount fo life
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The Tree of Life bows over the saint
on the left,a demon rock twists in agony
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Bihzad
The suicide of the artist Farhad,forbidden union with the lovely Shirin
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Beneath the withered stumps which symbolize dammed souls
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the period of 1465-153
Persian illustrator. The most famous master of Persian painting, he is important both for the paintings he executed and for the wider influence of the style associated with his name. Evidently orphaned at a young age, Bihzad is said to have been raised and trained by MIRAK, a painter and calligrapher employed in Herat by Husayn Bayqara.
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