EditorialClay puppet depicting a Roman soldier used as a toy. Dated between I and III centuries a.C. Mirak Fragonisi Cemetery. Olympia Archaeological Museum. Ilia Province. Peloponnese region. Greece.
EditorialKhusrau enthroned. (Inscription on right of throne ‘May he be prosperous’ and on the left of the throne and over the portico ‘May he be happy’. Inscription over the pavilion ‘O Lord protect the sovereignty of the mighty Sultan, the just Khaqa...
EditorialKhusrau and Shirin listening to stories told by Shirin’s maidens. (Inscription: over steps ‘O thou who art seated on the throne, O thou who art the one who controls the throne of Jamshid, may all the world be thine’. Over throne ‘The pupil of m...
EditorialShapur returning to Khusrau (Mirak). Khamsa by Nizami. Borders decorated with designs in gold of birds, animals, mythical beasts, trees and plants. Seventeen miniatures, some signed by Shah Tahmasp's artists., with three added 1675 opaque watercolour 1...
EditorialMughal Emperor Humayun (Kabul, 1508-Delhi, 1556). Second emperor of the Mughal Empire. He governed Afghanistan, Pakistan and territories of the Northern India from 1530 to 1540. Tomb of Humayun in Delhi, India. It was commissioned by his first wife and...
EditorialMajnun in the desert. Khamsa. Tabriz, 1539-1543. Majnun with the animals in the desert. A miniature painting with golden margins of birds, plants and mythical beast from a sixteenth century manuscript of Nizami's Khamsa ('Five Poems'). Image taken fro...
EditorialMajnun in the desert. Khamsa. Tabriz, 1539-1543. Majnun with the animals in the desert. A miniature painting with golden margins of birds, plants and mythical beast from a sixteenth century manuscript of Nizami's Khamsa ('Five Poems'). Image taken fro...
EditorialKhusrau enthroned. (Inscription on right of throne ‘May he be prosperous’ and on the left of the throne and over the portico ‘May he be happy’. Inscription over the pavilion ‘O Lord protect the sovereignty of the mighty Sultan, the just Khaqa...
EditorialKhusrau and Shirin listening to stories told by Shirin’s maidens. (Inscription: over steps ‘O thou who art seated on the throne, O thou who art the one who controls the throne of Jamshid, may all the world be thine’. Over throne ‘The pupil of m...
EditorialShapur returning to Khusrau (Mirak). Khamsa by Nizami. Borders decorated with designs in gold of birds, animals, mythical beasts, trees and plants. Seventeen miniatures, some signed by Shah Tahmasp's artists., with three added 1675 opaque watercolour 1...
EditorialSepulcro del emperador Humayun (Kabul, 1508-Delhi, 1556). Segundo emperador del Imperio mogol. Gobern? Afganist?n, Pakist?n y partes del norte de la India desde 1530 a 1540. En 1569-1570 su esposa, Hamida Begum, orden? construir el mausoleo en su honor...
EditorialSepulcro del emperador Humayun (Kabul, 1508-Delhi, 1556). Segundo emperador del Imperio mogol. Gobern? Afganist?n, Pakist?n y partes del norte de la India desde 1530 a 1540. En 1569-1570 su esposa, Hamida Begum, orden? construir el mausoleo en su honor...
Editorial'Hurmuzd I's Last Testament to Prince Bahram I', Folio 535r from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp, ca. 1525?30, Made in Iran, Tabriz, Opaque watercolor, ink, silver, and gold on paper, Painting: H. 6 5/8 x W. 7 3/32 in. (H. 16.8 x W. 18 cm)...
EditorialClay puppet depicting a Roman soldier used as a toy. Dated between I and III centuries a.C. Mirak Fragonisi Cemetery. Olympia Archaeological Museum. Ilia Province. Peloponnese region. Greece.