Sultan Ibrahim Mirzas Haft Awrang: A Princely Manuscript from Sixteenth-Century Iran
by Marianna Shreve Simpson, Marianna Simpson-Shreve, Massumeh Farhad
Category: Art

Simpson explores the production, purpose and meaning of the Haft awrang (Seven Thrones), providing historical documentation about its princely patron and artists, and analysing its contents. She focuses in particular on the iconography of the seven poems.