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Folio from the Kevorkian Album.
Calligraphy signed by Mir cAli Haravi Bukhara, Uzbekistan, ca. 1540. Ink, gold and colors on paper.
Purchase, Rogers Fund and The Kevorkian Foundation Gift, 1955 (55.121.10.7V).
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Sultan cAli of Mashhad, Master of Nastacliq
January 19, 2001–May 27, 2001
The Hagop Kevorkian Fund Special Exhibitions Gallery, Islamic Art, 2nd floor
This exhibition examines the elegant calligraphy of the acknowledged master of nastacliq—the writing style likened to flying geese that was favored in 15th- and 16th-century Iran for poetical texts—and two of his famous followers. Some twenty examples of manuscripts and specimen pages, many enlivened with brilliant illumination, are drawn from the Museum’s holdings, supplemented by a few works from outside collections.
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