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Dr. Massumeh Farhad, National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian

Thumbnail. The Bier of Iskandar (Alexander the Great), folio from the Great Mongol Shahnama (Il-Khanid dynasty, Tabriz, Iran), c. 1330, ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper, 57.6 x 39.7 cm (Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment, F1938.3) — Alexander, the Mongols, and the great epic of Iran.

Folio from a Shahnama, The Bier of ...

by Dr. Massumeh Farhad, National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian and Dr. Steven Zucker

Thumbnail. The Bier of Iskandar (Alexander the Great), folio from the Great Mongol Shahnama (Il-Khanid dynasty, Tabriz, Iran), c. 1330, ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper, 57.6 x 39.7 cm (Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment, F1938.3) — Alexander, the Mongols, and the great epic of Iran.

Folio from a Shahnama, The Bier of ...

by Dr. Massumeh Farhad, National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian and Dr. Steven Zucker