Islamic miniature
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Islamic miniatures are small paintings on paper, usually book or manuscript illustrations but also sometimes separate artworks, intended for muraqqa albums. The earliest examples date from around 1000
A miniature from the Umayyad period portraying a mosque and a garden c. 690 AD, from the Great Mosque of Sanaa's manuscripts
Persian miniature
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A Persian miniature is a small Persian painting on paper, whether a book illustration or a separate work of art intended to be kept in an album of such works called a muraqqa. The techniques are broad
Islamic miniature
…earliest examples date from around 1000, with a flourishing of the artform from around 1200. The field is divided by scholars into four types, Arabic, Persian, Mughal (Indian), Ottoman (Turkish). As in the art history of Europe, "miniature" is generally reserved for images including people, with abstract or…
Yusuf and Zulaikha (Joseph chased by Potiphar's wife), by Behzād. Bustan of Sa'di, Herat, 1488, created for Timurid ruler Sultan Husayn Bayqara
Camp scene from late in the classic period, with no frame (c. 1556-1565), Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Majnun (at top wearing orange) spies on his beloved Layla (standing in tent doorway).
Saki, album miniature by Reza Abbasi, 1609
Nighttime in a City: urban activity in the Safavid capital of Tabriz, painted circa 1540 for Shah Tahmasp (Sackler Museum, 1958.76).