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Shah-nama, Shiraz, 1370: Bahram Gur killing the Dragon

Date

Authors

Gray, Basil
Photographer: Arthur Llewellyn Basham

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Abstract

Description

With 1370 Shah-nama the natural landscape of the first half of the century is left behind for a conceptual world in which Persian painting was to excel during the next two hundred and fifty years. The elements are to be seen as symbols rather than decoration. "The dragon which Bahram is attacking is no longer the loathly bleeding monster of the Demotte Shah-nama but a cerulean apparition formidable because unearthly, as dynamic as a coiled spring
and still sinister with its black mane. Colour is now used for its formal qualities rather than representationally." -- 6.3125 x 4.875".

Keywords

Mediaeval painting, paintings, miniatures, book scan

Citation

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1885/208943

Collections

Basham Photographs

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Archives Series

Date created

1961

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License Rights

This image is provided for research purposes only and must not be reproduced without the prior permission of the Archives Program, Australian National University.

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