The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Special Exhibitions: The Legacy of Genghis Khan: Courtly Art and Culture in Western Asia, 1256


	Current Exhibitions
	Upcoming Exhibitions
	Past Exhibitions
	Traveling Exhibitions

The Legacy of Genghis Khan: Courtly Art and Culture in Western Asia, 1256–1353
November 5, 2002–February 16, 2003
Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Exhibition Hall, 2nd floor

	View all features related to this exhibition, including images, audio, an exploration of the Great Mongol Shahnama, and an essay from the exhibition catalogue.

	Learn more about this exhibition.

The period of Ilkhanid rule—a semi-independent branch of the Mongols—in Iran from the mid-thirteenth to the mid-fourteenth century caused a transformation of the locally established artistic language through contact with Far Eastern art of the Yüan dynasty. The era witnessed a number of remarkable achievements within the sphere of art and culture, and the convergence of the distant cultures of East and West Asia yielded a bold new visual aesthetic that would resonate in Islamic art for centuries to come. This exhibition displays more than 200 outstanding examples of illustrated manuscripts, the decorative arts, and architectural decoration created during a pivotal historical period.

Accompanied by a catalogue.

The exhibition is made possible in part by The Hagop Kevorkian Fund.
Additional support has been provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities and The Adelaide Milton de Groot Fund, in memory of the de Groot and Hawley families.
The exhibition has been organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
An indemnity has been granted by the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.

Photograph Credits