Khamsa of Nizami, Herat, 1494: Construction of the Castle of Khawarnaq, painted by Bihzad

Gray, Basil; Photographer: Arthur Llewellyn Basham

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Khamsa of Nizami, Herat, 1494: Construction of the Castle of Khawarnaq, painted by Bihzad

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dc.contributor.author	Gray, Basil
dc.contributor.author	Photographer: Arthur Llewellyn Basham
dc.coverage.spatial	Persia (Herat, Afghanistan)
dc.date.accessioned	2020-08-25T00:04:55Z
dc.date.available	2020-08-25T00:04:55Z
dc.date.created	1961
dc.identifier	ANUA 682-4301
dc.identifier.other	P(M-P)-117
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1885/208953
dc.description	This slide and the following one are both genre scenes and full of movement
dc.description	there is little imaginative content, and the interest of the composition is largely formal. For all the activity of the numerous figures, it is the ladder and scaffolding in the first, and the hanging blue towels in the second, which are the keys to the curiously square pictures. For all their apparent realism these pages are as near abstract flat pattern as anything in Persian painting. The figures are so arranged that there is plenty of space for the internal rhythms in the comparatively open composition. Bihzad shows his genius for composition in the way that he has invented here so many poses and groupings that were to become the stock-in-trade of the Persian school during almost a hundred years. In the construction scene most of the figures form pairs in reciprocal action, thus producing a dynamic pattern of movement which is all contained within the margins and thus built up into a complex of intense energy. -- 7 x 5.25".
dc.format.extent	35mm
dc.format.medium	slide
dc.format.medium	colour
dc.language.iso	en_AU
dc.subject	Mediaeval painting
dc.subject	paintings
dc.subject	miniatures
dc.subject	book scan
dc.title	Khamsa of Nizami, Herat, 1494: Construction of the Castle of Khawarnaq, painted by Bihzad
dc.type	Image
local.description.notes	Source: Basil Gray, Persian Painting, New York, Skira, 1961, p. 116
dc.date.updated	2020-08-25T00:04:54Z
dc.provenance	Digitised by the Australian National University in 2020
dc.rights.license	This image is provided for research purposes only and must not be reproduced without the prior permission of the Archives Program, Australian National University.
Collections	Arthur Llewellyn Basham

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