Diwan of Hafiz, c. 1533: Lovers entertained by Musicians and Dancers
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Gray, Basil
Photographer: Arthur Llewellyn Basham
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The clue to the picture lies in the pair of girls who sway towards one another as they work their castinets, silhouetted against the dark green grass. At first sight the composition is deceptively simple, and the flowering trees resemble those of a hundred years earlier. But every figure and plant is carefully placed, so as to build up a fete champetre as rhythmical as the other more crowded scenes in this manuscript
while the simple conventions for hillside and clouds close this enchanted vision more suitably than a more naturalistic view could have done. -- Painted for Sam Mirza, 11.375 x 7.25".
while the simple conventions for hillside and clouds close this enchanted vision more suitably than a more naturalistic view could have done. -- Painted for Sam Mirza, 11.375 x 7.25".
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1961
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