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Yaḥyā ibn Maḥmūd al-Wāsiṭī: Quick Facts

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Flourished c.1201 - c.1300
Movement / Style Baghdad school • Islamic arts

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Maqāmāt of al-Ḥarīrī
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Aḥmad Mūsā
Persian painter
“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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Abdülcelil Levnî
Ottoman 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
“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
Pucelle, Jean: The Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux
Jean Pucelle
French artist
El Greco: Portrait of Giulio Glovio
Giulio Clovio
Italian painter and priest
Rezā ʿAbbāsī: The Lovers
Rezā ʿAbbāsī
Persian painter
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Āqā Mīrak
Persian painter
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Jean de Limbourg
Flemish artist
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Paul de Limbourg
Flemish artist
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Herman de Limbourg
Flemish artist
Self-portrait of Leonardo da Vinci drawn in red chalk, showing an elderly man with long hair and a flowing beard, with a serious, contemplative expression.
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian artist, engineer, and scientist
William Blake
William Blake
English engraver, artist, and poet
Henri Matisse stands in a studio wearing a painter's smock, holding a palette beside a wooden ladder, with abstract artwork visible in the background.
Henri Matisse
French artist
Marc Chagall
Marc Chagall
Belorussian-born French artist
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Lucas Cranach, the Elder
German painter

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