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Safavid

safavid drawing grid — The precision of the line and the attention to texture allow this drawing to stand on its own as a finished work.

Groom and Rider drawing

by The Metropolitan Museum of Art

persian painting grid — Explore the rich effects of a painting from an illustrated manuscript of the Shahnameh — or ‘Book of Kings’ — the national epic of Iran composed by poet Firdawsi around 1010.

Looking at Persian painting

Wine bearers in landscape, from a robe, 1525–50, silk (lampas), 85.1 x 38.1 cm (The Cleveland Museum of Art) — Safavid nobles wrapped themselves in poetries of love, wine, and youth

Wine bearers in landscape, a Safavid textile

by Dr. Nader Sayadi

The anonymous figure depicted in this painting embodies the fashion of Isfahan, Iran’s capital city under the rule of Shah 'Abbas I

Riza-yi ‘Abbasi, portrait of a young page ...

by The British Museum

34198001 grid — The single page format of this painting shows the trend among seventeenth-century art patrons to collect particularly fine examples of drawing, painting or calligraphy on single pages

Mir Afzal of Tun, a reclining woman ...

by The British Museum

Rizaa-yi Abbasi grid — Riza-yi ʿAbbasi is famous for his drawings of individual or paired figures on single pages

Riza-yi ʿAbbasi, Seated calligrapher

by The British Museum