Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History

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    • Portrait of a Portuguese, ca. 1630; Safavid
    School of Riza cAbbasi (ca. 1565–1635)
    Colors and gilt on paper

    12 x 7 in. (30.5 x 17.8 cm)
    Rogers Fund, 1955 (55.121.23)

    The arrival of European traders was soon reflected in the art of Safavid Iran. Male dress, poses from oil portraits, and the depiction of architecture and landscapes were all incorporated into traditional Persian paintings. Here the languid, handsome youth popular in many early seventeenth-century albums appears in the type of costume worn by Portuguese visitors to the court.

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  • Portrait of a Portuguese, ca. 1630; Safavid
    School of Riza cAbbasi (ca. 1565–1635)
    Colors and gilt on paper

    12 x 7 in. (30.5 x 17.8 cm)
    Rogers Fund, 1955 (55.121.23)