Muḥammadī

Muḥammadī (flourished 16th century, Ṣafavid Iran) was one of the leading court painters during the time (1548–97) that the Ṣafavid capital was Qazvīn. A native of western Iran, he was a son of the painter Sulṭān Muḥammad, who was one of his teachers. A master of line, Muḥammadī (so called after his great father) began to paint while still young and while Tabrīz was still the capital. The surviving examples of his work were executed...