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Also Known As Ibn as-Sitrī • Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Hilāl ibn al-Bawwāb
Born 975 or 1000 • Iraq
Died 1031 • 1022 • Baghdad • Iraq
Movement / Style Islamic arts
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Ibn Muqlah
Islamic calligrapher
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Muẓaffar ʿAlī
Persian artist
illustration from Kitāb al-aghānī (“The Book of Songs”) by Abū al-Faraj al-Iṣbahānī
Abū al-Faraj al-Iṣbahānī
Muslim scholar
“Fight Between Humāy and Humāyūn,” miniature painted by Junayd for the Khamseh of Khwājū Kermānī, 1396; in the British Library (MS. Add 18113, fol 23a)
Junayd
Islamic painter
Tower of the Rising Clouds, colour on silk by Mi Fu; in the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Mi Fu
Chinese artist
Poggio Bracciolini, Gian Francesco
Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini
Italian scholar
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Wu Changshuo
Chinese artist
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Dong Qichang
Chinese artist
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Huizong
emperor of Song dynasty
Manuscript copy sheet by Edward Johnston
Edward Johnston
British calligrapher
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Khwāja ʿAbd-uṣ-Ṣamad
Persian painter
Fraktur fonts
Rudolf Koch
German artist
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Ike Taiga
Japanese painter
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Huang Tingjian
Chinese poet and calligrapher
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Wen Zhengming
Chinese artist
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Esther Inglis
Scottish calligrapher
Zhao Mengfu: Twin Pines, Level Distance
Zhao Mengfu
Chinese painter
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W.A. Dwiggins
American artist
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Shōkadō Shōjō
Japanese artist
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Qi Baishi
Chinese painter