urrent allegianceto Chinese art, led thewa\ to Persia, havingan essentially nationalschool of painting.And that master wasBihzad. In quite a numberol early geographicalbooks, lor instancethat of the Arab,Edrisi, who wrote inthe mid-twelfth cen-tury, there is muchpraise of Herat, as asplendid town.… … Anc 1NIH>-1ERSIAN -LATE XVI CI Ml IO exclusively for Husayn Mirza. He wroughtseveral portraits of the monarch, among them anequestrian one, which, no larger than an octavovolume, is yet well in the forefront of the worldsequestrian portraits, those by Rubens, Velasquez,and Van Dyck not excepted.…
Art · Decoration and ornament
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