How the Persian Qalam Caused the Chinese Brush to Break: The Bahram Mirza Album Revisited

This essay addresses the significance and status of Chinese art in sixteenth-century Iran through the lens of Safavid scholars, painters, and album compilers, as well as their patrons. It focuses on the album that Dust Muhammad compiled for Bahram Mirza, completed in 1544/45 and largely preserved in...

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Main Author: Weis, Friederike 1971- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill [2020]
In: Muqarnas
Year: 2020, Volume: 37, Issue: 1, Pages: 63-109
Further subjects:B Safavid albums
B Shiʿi aesthetic
B inner and outer vision
B Bahram Mirza
B Imam ʿAli b. Abi Talib
B ʿAbdi Beg Shirazi
B mimetic abstraction
B Chinese painting
B Dust Muhammad
B cross-cultural responses
B optical naturalism
B Shah Tahmasp
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