"Physician Preparing an Elixir", Folio from a Materia Medica of Dioscorides
Figural book painting started in the Islamic world as an art form in the late Abbasid Iraq of the 13th century. The translation of a Greek manuscript shows a Physian preparing an elixir.
Artwork Details
- Title: "Physician Preparing an Elixir", Folio from a Materia Medica of Dioscorides
- Translator: 'Abdullah ibn al-Fadl
- Date: dated 621 AH/1224 CE
- Geography: Attributed to Iraq or Northern Jazira, possibly Baghdad
- Medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- Dimensions: Page: H. 13 1/16 in. (33.2 cm)
W. 9 3/4 in. (24.8 cm)
Mat size: H. 19 1/4 in. (48.9 cm)
W. 14 1/4 in. (36.2 cm)
- Classification: Codices
- Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1913
- Object Number: 13.152.6
- Curatorial Department: Islamic Art
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