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Also Known As Āqā Rezā
Born c.1570 • Mashhad • Iran
Died 1635? • Isfahan • Iran
Movement / Style Eṣfahān school • Islamic arts
Notable Family Members son Abu al-Hasan

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“The Building of the Famous Castle of Khawarnaq,” miniature by Behzād, c. 1494, from the Khamseh of Neẓāmī; in the British Library (OR. MS. 6810 fol 154v)
Behzād
Persian painter
Sulṭān Muḥammad: “The Feast of Sada” in the Shāh-nāmeh
Sulṭān Muḥammad
Persian painter
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Muẓaffar ʿAlī
Persian artist
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Aḥmad Mūsā
Persian painter
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Āqā Mīrak
Persian painter
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Abdülcelil Levnî
Ottoman painter
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Yaḥyā ibn Maḥmūd al-Wāsiṭī
Iraqi painter
The Portrait of Khosrow Is Shown to Shīrīn, miniature by Muḥammadī in the Khamseh of Neẓāmī created for Shah Ṭahmāsp I, 1539–43; in the British Library, London (Or. MS 2265, fol. 48v).
Muḥammadī
Persian painter
“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
“Mejnūn Being Brought by a Beggar Woman to Leylā's Tent,” miniature by Mīr Sayyid ʿAlī in the Khamseh of Neẓāmī done for Shāh Ṭahmāsp I, 1539–43; in the British Library (OR. MS. 2265 fol 157v)
Mīr Sayyid ʿAli
Persian painter
Shahzia Sikander
Shahzia Sikander
Pakistani-American artist
“Joshua and the Fall of Jericho” from Flavius Josephus' Antiquités judaïques, manuscript illuminated by Jean Fouquet, c. 1474; in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris (Ms. Fr. 247)
Jean Fouquet
French painter
Sarah Goodridge: portrait of Gilbert Stuart
Sarah Goodridge
American painter
Portrait of a Woman, watercolour on ivory by Anna Claypoole Peale, 1818; in the Art Institute of Chicago.
Anna Claypoole Peale
American painter
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Bichitr
Indian painter
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Jean-Baptiste Isabey
French painter
Fassett, Cornelia Adele Strong
Cornelia Adele Strong Fassett
American painter
Pucelle, Jean: The Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux
Jean Pucelle
French artist
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Sāhibdīn
Indian painter
Richard Cosway: Portrait of a Man in Armour
Richard Cosway
English miniaturist

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