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Part of Islamic Art
Painting by Habiballah of Sava (active ca. 1590–1610)
Date: ca. 1601–6Accession Number: 1992.51
Date: first quarter 17th centuryAccession Number: 03.9c
Date: early 19th centuryAccession Number: 2006.523a, b
Abu'l Qasim Firdausi (935–1020)
Date: ca. 1525Accession Number: 1970.301.3
Painting by Riza-yi `Abbasi (ca. 1565–1635)
Date: dated A.H. 1039/ A.D. 1630Accession Number: 50.164
Date: ca. 1640Accession Number: 65.109.2
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The Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Gallery continues a chronological overview of the art of the Persian world, while underscoring its many connections with other cultures, from Gallery 455. It features masterpieces created in Tabriz and Isfahan under the imperial Safavid dynasty in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and its successors. Highlights include the celebrated mid-sixteenth-century Emperor's Carpet and the famous illustrations to the Book of Kings or Shahnama, displayed in specially designed cases for seated visitors to view.
Conservation of the Emperor's Carpet is made possible in part by the generosity of Dr. and Mrs. Richard R. Lindsey.
