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Radha and Krishna on the terrace, Indian miniature painting, Kishangarh style, c. 1760.
“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)
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Shahzia Sikander
Shahzia Sikander
Pakistani-American artist
“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
“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
Sulṭān Muḥammad: “The Feast of Sada” in the Shāh-nāmeh
Sulṭān Muḥammad
Persian painter
Rezā ʿAbbāsī: The Lovers
Rezā ʿAbbāsī
Persian 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
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Muẓaffar ʿAlī
Persian artist
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Yaḥyā ibn Maḥmūd al-Wāsiṭī
Iraqi painter
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Abdülcelil Levnî
Ottoman 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
Pucelle, Jean: The Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux
Jean Pucelle
French artist
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
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Sāhibdīn
Indian painter
Richard Cosway: Portrait of a Man in Armour
Richard Cosway
English miniaturist
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Bishandas
Indian painter
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Aḥmad Mūsā
Persian painter