Page from a Shah-nama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi (Persian, about 934–1020)
Cleveland Museum of Art

Page from a Shah-nama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi (Persian, about 934–1020)

Mir Musavvir (Iranian, c. 1510–1555) · 1520–37

Gum tempera, ink, gold, and silver on paper
CC0 — Public Domain
Cleveland Museum of Art

The 50,000 rhyming couplets of the <em>Shahnama</em> tell the story of ancient kings of Iran.

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