Shahnameh — Rustam Battles a Div | Persian Miniature Art Print

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Shahnameh — Rustam Battles a Div | Persian Miniature Art PrintThe Shahnameh (Book of Kings, c. 1010 CE) by Abu'l Qasim Firdausi (c. 9401020 CE) is the world's longest epic poem by a single author 60,000 couplets narrating the mythological and historical kings of Persia from creation to the Islamic conquest, and the foundational work of modern Persian literature. Its illustrated manuscripts, produced over five centuries in Herat, Tabriz, Shiraz, and Isfahan under Timurid, Safavid, and Mughal patronage, represent

snow-covered shrines

leaving as much to the imagination as to the brush

Santiago Rusiñol (1861–1931) was the defining figure of Catalan Modernisme and one of the most celebrated Spanish painters of his generation

Itō Jakuchū (1716–1800) was one of the most individual painters of 18th-century Japan — a self-taught eccentric whose Colorful Realm of Living Beings series (30 silk scrolls

when precision and beauty were considered inseparable

His landscape paintings — Italian gardens

His work is collected today as essential American graphic design of the Gilded Age

perfectly observed — remain the most collectable of all Shin Hanga prints and are held in major museum collections worldwide

and poet whose works — vast canvases of angelic figures

Owen Jones (1809–1874) was a Welsh architect and designer whose Grammar of Ornament (1856) — 112 chromolithographic plates documenting decorative traditions from ancient Egypt to the Renaissance — became the single most influential design reference book of the 19th century

Inagaki Tomoo (1902–1980) was a Japanese Sōsaku-hanga printmaker best known for his series of cat prints — studies of cats sleeping

Where Seurat was monumental and Signac was bold

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