Harvard Art Museums > 1999.302: Day of Judgment, folio from a manuscript of the Falnama (Book of Omens). Manuscripts Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Day of Judgment, folio from a manuscript of the Falnama (Book of Omens). , 1999.302,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Dec 21, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/199019. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 1999.302 Title Day of Judgment, folio from a manuscript of the Falnama (Book of Omens). Other Titles Alternate Title: Judgment Day, folio from Shah Tahmasp Safavi's “Falnama” Series/Book Title: Falnama Classification Manuscripts Work Type painting with text Date c. 1555 Places Creation Place: Middle East, Iran, Tabriz Period Safavid period Culture Persian Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/199019 Physical Descriptions Medium Opaque watercolor and gold on paper Dimensions sight: 58.5 × 43.7 cm (23 1/16 × 17 3/16 in.) frame: 84.1 × 68.9 × 2.5 cm (33 1/8 × 27 1/8 × 1 in.) Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Stuart Cary Welch, Jr. Accession Year 1999 Object Number 1999.302 Division Asian and Mediterranean Art Contact am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Publication History Mary McWilliams, "Welch Gift of Indian, Iranian, and Turkish Art to the Arthur M. Sackler Museum", Apollo, ed. David Ekserdjian, Apollo Magazine Limited (London, England, December 2000), vol. CLII no. 466, pp.12-14, Page 12-14/Figure 2 James Cuno, ed., A Decade of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions by the Harvard University Art Museums, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, Mass., Spring 2000), pp. 32-33 Stephan Wolohojian and Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Harvard Art Museum/ Handbook, ed. Stephan Wolohojian, Harvard Art Museum (Cambridge, 2008), p. 69 Massumeh Farhad and Serpil Bagci, Falnama: The Book of Omens, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery (Washington, D.C., 2009), pp. 190-191, 258 Christiane Gruber, ed., The Moon: A Voyage through Time, exh. cat., The Aga Khan Museum (Toronto, 2019), pp. 110-111, no. 17 Adriana Proser, ed., Comparative Hell: Arts of Asian Underworlds, exh. cat., Asia Society (New York, 2022), p. 6, detail; pp. 96-97, no. 5 Exhibition History Calligraphy and the Arts of the Book, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/25/1993 - 01/30/1994 A Decade of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions of Islamic and Later Indian Art, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 06/08/2000 - 09/03/2000 Falnama: The Book of Omens, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington, 10/24/2009 - 01/24/2010 32Q: 2550 Islamic, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/14/2015 - 11/03/2015 Comparative Hell: Arts of Asian Underworlds, Asia Society Museum, New York, 02/07/2023 - 05/07/2023 Subjects and Contexts Collection Highlights Google Art Project Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of Asian and Mediterranean Art at am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
