Persian poetry, painting & patronage
Subtitle: illustrations in a sixteenth-century masterpiece
By: Marianna Shreve Simpson.
Contributors: Freer Gallery of Art.
Publisher: Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution; Yale University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Washington, D.C; New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 79
Subjects: Jāmī, 1414-1492. -- Illustrations; Freer Jami; Illumination of books and manuscripts, Iranian; Illumination of books and manuscripts, Islamic -- Iran; Illumination of books and manuscripts -- Washington (D.C.)
Other titles: Persian poetry, painting, and patronage
Description: "Commissioned by Prince Sultan Ibrahim Mirza in 1556, five Iranian court calligraphers devoted nine years to transcribing the poetic text of the great Persian classic, the Haft awrang (Seven thrones), by the mystical poet Abdul-Rahman Jami. Then a team of gifted artists undertook the illumination and illustration of the manuscript. The masterpiece they created - housed today in the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and known as the Freer Jami - is a sumptuous volume of some three hundred folios of elegant cursive script with richly decorated margins, thousands of multicolored section dividers, nine illuminated headings and nine colophons that begin and end the main divisions of the text, and twenty-eight narrative paintings. This book reproduces to scale the Freer Jami paintings, discusses each in detail, and introduces the manuscript's patron and artists, painting style and meaning."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 77) and index.