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Court of the Gayumars

GK

Gina Kim

Transcript

GOLD SPECKS ON PAPER

INK

  • Persian illumination vs Medieval illumination
  • not a tool to help the illiterate to understand
  • Safavid Iran was going through a golden age of knowledge, education art at the time, so literacy in the Muslim world was better than medieval literacy
  • Illumination instead was used to glorify and celebrate Persian culture in the Shahnameh
  • The epic was crowning literary achievement of the time
  • Also represented a political treatise promising honor, morality, and legitimacy increased Persian nationalistic sentiment
  • the king depicted is Gayumarth the first Shah(King) of Iran, surrounded by his court
  • leopard skins denote the wealth and power of the court
  • the opening scene of the Shahnameh
  • The Shahnameh, or Book of Kings, is the Iranian national epic
  • Covers the history of Iran from the Creation to Muslim conquest
  • written by Ferdowsi
  • The folio was part of a larger codex, an illuminated copy of the Shahnameh
  • illustrator was Dust Muhammad
  • It took Muhammad three years to complete the illustrations because of the details and the minute scale of the artwork

Content

  • Safavids-Iranian empire that ruled Persia(Iran) from 1501-1736
  • Shah Tahmasp, the Safavid ruler of Iran, commissioned the illustrated codex from Dust Muhammad.
  • The book was considered the zenith of Persian art, and involved almost all of the major Iranian artists of the time.
  • Codex was ripped into individual folios by a private collector D:
  • The Safavids were contemporaries of the Ottoman empire to the north
  • took part in the rich trade between east and west through Turkey.
  • Later in 1568, Tahmasp presented the finished codex to the Ottoman Sultan, Selim II.
  • Illumination tradition in the Muslim world began with the earliest Korans
  • Initially just borders and headings.
  • Later some animals and people became a part of the accepted repertoire of illuminations.

Context

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Function

Court of the Gayumars

190. The Court of Gayumars, folio from Shah Tahmasp’s Shahnama. Sultan Muhammad. c. 1522-1525 C.E. Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper.

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