Figures
1 Anonymous,Muhammad at the Kaaba, fromThe
Compendium of Chroniclesby Rashid al-Din Hamadani,
c.1306/1315 CE. Edinburgh University Library, Or. MS 20,
f. 45r, detail, c. 4 × 25 cm (p. 41.5 × 34.2 cm) Creative
Commons. page 54
2 Anonymous,Bayad Plays the Oud to the Lady, from the
Story of Bayad and Riyad, Vatican Apostolic Library,
Vat.ar.368, 10r, 17.5 × 19 cm. By permission of Biblioteca
Apostolica Vaticana, with all rights reserved. ©
Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. 62
3 Anonymous,Simurgh, from theManafial-Hayawanby
Jabril ibn Bakhtishu, Maragheh, Iran,c. 1297–1300. Pierpont
Morgan Library. MS M.500, fol. 55r. 101
4 Anonymous,Angels Bowing before Adam, from theMajalis
al-Ussaqby Amir Kamil al-Din Gazurgahi, 1580.
Bibliothèque National de France, Supplément Persan
1150, fol. 8v, p. 29 × 18.5 cm. 121
5 Johann Jacob von Sandrart,Zeuxis and Parrhasius,in
Academia nobilissimae artis pictoriae, 1683, v. 2, pl.
C. Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, 3011–241. 177
6 Anonymous,Queen Nushaba Recognizes Alexander from
His Portrait, from theKhamsaby Nizami of Ganj, 1485.
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, MS. Or. Quart 1665. 186
7 Anonymous,The Seven Sleepers of Ephesus Discovered by
Alexander the Great, from aBook of Omens, 1550s,
58 × 45 cm. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 35.64.3. 201
8 Anonymous,The Hanging of Mansur al-Hallaj, from the
Divanby Khosrau Dihlavi, Allahabad, India, 1602.
The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, W.650.22B. 202
9 Antonin Sevruguin,“Taq-e Bustan, Sasanian Rock Reliefs, Large
Vault with Relief of Khusro II,”photographic print, 1880s–1930.
Myron Bement Smith Collection: Antoin Sevruguin Photographs,
viii Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.