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Artist:
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Firdausi
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Title:
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Tahmineh Visits Rustam
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Date:
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c. 1440-1445
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Medium:
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Ink, colors, and gold on paper
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Dimensions:
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10 3/8 x 6 3/4 in. (26.35 x 17.15 cm)
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Credit Line:
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Bequest of Mrs. Margaret McMillan Webber in memory of her mother, Katherine Kittredge McMillan
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Location:
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Gallery 243
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This painting depicts a romantic scene from the life of Rustam, the Persian hero of the Shah Nama, or Book of Kings. Here Tahmineh, daughter of the King of Turan, visits Rustam at night. The verse reads in part:
Towards the unconscious warrior's pillow stepped a slave with perfumed candle, while behind her came a creature lovely as the moon, radiant as the sun, and fragrant in her beauty.
Although suggestive touches like this occur throughout the Shah Nama, the romantic adventures are didactic in nature and subordinate to the greater struggle of the good heroes against the forces of darkness.
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Artist/Creator(s)
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Name:
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Firdausi
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Role:
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Maker
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Object Description
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Inscriptions:
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Classification:
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Manuscript
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Physical Description:
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The same scene described in Schroeder's Persian Miniatures, pp 51 H, illustrated on pp VIII, Cambridge 1942. Another miniature of the same scene in a famous manuscript in library of Royal Asiatic Society, London, illustrated in J.V.S. Wilkinson's Shah Namah of Firdausi, where is to be found account of whole story. This miniature No. 923 should be dated toward end of 14th century. It is colorful and the figures
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Creation Place:
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Asia, Persia (Iran), , , Shiraz
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Accession #:
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51.37.20
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Owner:
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The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
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