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Object Number

1960.198

People

Unknown Artist

Title

Timur Celebrates His Conquest of Delhi (painting, verso; text, recto), illustrated folio from the Zafarnama (Book of Victory) of Sharaf al-Din 'Ali Yazdi

Classification

Manuscripts

Work Type

manuscript folio

Date

1436

Places

Creation Place: Middle East, Iran, Shiraz

Period

Timurid period

Culture

Persian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/215330

Medium

Ink and opaque watercolor on paper

Dimensions

folio: 28 x 16.8 cm (11 x 6 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller

Accession Year

1960

Object Number

1960.198

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Contact

am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu

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Eric Schroeder, "Mrs. Rockefeller's Miniatures at the Fogg", The Connoisseur (August 1961), vol. 148, pp. 70-75, p.73, fig. 8

Eleanor Sims, "The Garrett Manuscript of the Zafar-Name: A Study in Fifteenth Century Timurid Patronage" (1973), p. 83, no. 7H, pp. 162-163

Robert Hillenbrand, Imperial Images in Persian Painting: A Scottish Arts Council Exhibition, exh. cat., Scottish Arts Council Gallery (Edinburgh, 1977), no. 69

Marianna Shreve Simpson, Arab and Persian Painting in the Fogg Art Museum, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1980), pp. 9, 33, 40-41, no. 10, ill.

Michele de Angelis and Thomas W. Lentz, Architecture in Islamic Painting: Permanent and Impermanent Worlds, brochure, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, Mass, 1982)

Middle East Studies Association Bulletin, Middle East Studies Association Bulletin, 1, July 1983, Front Cover

Thomas W. Lentz and Glenn D. Lowry, Timur and the Princely Vision: Persian Art and Culture in the Fifteenth Century, exh. cat., Museum Associates (Los Angeles, CA, 1989)

David Roxburgh, ed., Turks: A Journey of a Thousand Years, 600 - 1600, exh. cat., Royal Academy of Arts (London, 2005), p. 219/ fig 168

David Roxburgh, Timurlu Minyatürlerinde Sarap: "Saki, Bize Ab-i Hayat Ver" (Wine in Timurid Miniatures "Cupbearer, let us have some water for life", P Art and Culture Magazine (Istanbul, 2007), Vol. 17, pp. 116-129, p. 117

Craig Clunas, Jessica Harrison-Hall, and Luk Yu-ping, ed., Ming China: Courts and Contacts 1400-1450, Trustees of the British Museum (London, 2016), pp. 232-233, 287; plate 26.6

Islamic Art: The Power of Pattern, Harvard University Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 09/23/1989 - 01/17/1990

Paintings for Princes: The Art of the Book in Islam, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/27/1990 - 03/25/1990

Courts and Countryside: Islamic Paintings from the 14th through the 17th Century, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 05/21/1999 - 08/22/1999

Turkic Art 600 - 1600 From Central Asia to the Golden Horn, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 01/22/2005 - 04/12/2005

A New Light on Bernard Berenson: Persian Paintings from Villa I Tatti, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/20/2017 - 08/13/2017

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