Jayne Yantz teaches Art History at Rowan College at Burlington County in New Jersey. She completed her Master’s degree at The Ohio State University and three years of work toward the Ph.D. at the University of Delaware. Her main interest is non-Western art and culture, especially cultures of the ancient Americas and the Islamic world. Yantz has traveled extensively and studied in Peru and Jordan.
In this hunting scene from the Persian Book of Kings, the ruler Bahram lives up to his nickname “Gur,” or swift.