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Image for The Achaemenid Persian Empire (550–330 B.C.)
Essay

The Achaemenid Persian Empire (550–330 B.C.)

October 1, 2004

By Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art

The Achaemenid Persian empire was the largest that the ancient world had seen, extending from Anatolia and Egypt across western Asia to northern India and Central Asia.
Image for Eternal Springtime: A Persian Garden Carpet from the Burrell Collection
Curator Sheila Canby explores the imagery of eternal springtime in a grand seventeenth-century Persian garden carpet on loan from the Burrell Collection.
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video

Connections: Bugs

September 26, 2011
Educator Edie Watts highlights the subtle and surprising instances where bugs are depicted throughout works in The Met collection.
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editorial

Exploring Persian Literature in Bazm and Razm

May 19, 2015

By Julia Cohen

Research Assistant Julia Cohen highlights a number of folios from the most influential works of Persian literature that are on view in Bazm and Razm: Feast and Fight in Persian Art and the Department of Islamic Art's permanent galleries.
Image for Shahzia Sikander on Persian Miniature Painting
Artist Shahzia Sikander reflects on Persian miniature painting in this episode of The Artist Project.
Image for Prayer, Placement, and Absolution: Peter Hristoff on Islamic Prayer Rugs
Artist in Residence Peter Hristoff meditates on the role of Islamic prayer rugs (seccades) and the role they play in his own creative output.
Image for Persian Miniatures: A Picture Book
Persian Miniatures is a picture book showcasing the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection of popular Persian illustrations from the 14th to early 17th century. The book contains an introduction by M. S. Dimand which briefly explains the history and importance of these Persian miniatures and the artists who made them.
Image for The Secret Life of Flowers: Reimagining the Persian Rose and Nightingale
Join scholar Layla Diba for a richly illustrated lecture exploring the theme of the unrequited love of the nightingale for the rose in Persian art and poetry, inspired by the life and work of Annemarie Schimmel.
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Peter Hristoff on Keeping Turkish Rug-Making Traditions Alive

March 24, 2016

By Peter Hristoff

Artist in Residence Peter Hristoff recaps his recent work with a group of The Met's high school interns that focused on the design and production of traditional Turkish pile rugs.
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Persian Tiles

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Rug

Date: 17th century
Accession Number: 1982.60.79

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Savonnerie Manufactory (Manufactory, established 1626; Manufacture Royale, established 1663)

Date: third quarter 17th century
Accession Number: 1976.155.113

Image for Carpet with Palm Trees, Ibexes, and Birds

Date: late 16th–early 17th century
Accession Number: 17.190.858

Image for The Emperor's Carpet

Date: second half 16th century
Accession Number: 43.121.1

Image for Fragment of a Northwest Persian Medallion Carpet

Date: early 16th century
Accession Number: 22.100.67

Image for Silk Animal Carpet

Date: second half 16th century
Accession Number: 14.40.721

Image for Silk Kashan Carpet

Date: 16th century
Accession Number: 58.46

Image for Confronted Animal Rug

Date: 14th century
Accession Number: 1990.61

Image for The Anhalt Medallion Carpet

Date: probably first half 16th century
Accession Number: 46.128

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Date: 1800–1900
Accession Number: 59.121