Love Scene, c. 1630, painted by Muhammad Yusuf al-Husaini

dc.contributor.authorGray, Basil
dc.contributor.authorPhotographer: Arthur Llewellyn Basham
dc.coverage.spatialPersia (Iran)
dc.date.accessioned2020-08-25T00:08:37Z
dc.date.available2020-08-25T00:08:37Z
dc.date.created1961
dc.date.updated2020-08-25T00:08:37Z
dc.descriptionThe tendency to realism gained the upper hand over abstract designing, perhaps under the influence of European art. Riza's contemporary Muhammad Yusuf al-Husaini carried this movement towards a release from the flat designing of the traditional Persian figure drawing, as far as it ever went. Here he makes of the relations of three figures, two kneeling young men and a lady of fashion, an exercise in intersecting forms which for once is composed in depth. Her upraised arms coil about the turban which she has removed from her lover's head and is placing on her own, in a dance movement echoed by the streaming clouds and foliage against the deep blue sky. -- 9.75 x 6.75".
dc.format.extent35mm
dc.format.mediumslide
dc.format.mediumcolour
dc.identifierANUA 682-4317
dc.identifier.otherP(M-P)-134
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/208969
dc.language.isoen_AU
dc.provenanceDigitised by the Australian National University in 2020
dc.rights.licenseThis image is provided for research purposes only and must not be reproduced without the prior permission of the Archives Program, Australian National University.
dc.subjectMediaeval painting
dc.subjectpaintings
dc.subjectminiatures
dc.subjectbook scan
dc.titleLove Scene, c. 1630, painted by Muhammad Yusuf al-Husaini
dc.typeImage
dspace.entity.typeANUArchivesItem
local.description.notesSource: Basil Gray, Persian Painting, New York, Skira, 1961, p. 169

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