ʿAbbāsī, Shaykh

by Farhad, Massumeh

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Shaykh ʿAbbāsī was an eleventh/seventeenth-century Ṣafavid painter who introduced a new hybrid style, inspired largely by Indian pictorial conventions. His works are dated between 1057/1647 and 1095/1684 and are often signed in minute characters with the phrase bahā girift chu gardīd Shaykh ʿAbbāsī , “it [or he] achieved worth because he became Shaykh ʿAbbāsī.” According to Robert Skelton (ʿAbbāsī, Šayk̲, EIr , 87–8), the signature implies that he and/or his work gained value because his patron …

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Shaykh ʿAbbāsī was an eleventh/seventeenth-century Ṣafavid painter who introduced a new hybrid style, inspired largely by Indian pictorial conventions. His works are dated between 1057/1647 and 1095/1684 and are often signed in minute characters with the phrase bahā girift chu gardīd Shaykh ʿAbbāsī , “it [or he] achieved worth because he became Shaykh ʿAbbāsī.” According to Robert Skelton (ʿAbbāsī, Šayk̲, EIr , 87–8), the signature implies that he and/or his work gained value because his patron ʿAbbās II (r. 1052–77/1642–66) allowed him to

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  • Publisher(s):Brill
  • Language:eng

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eng Islam

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Farhad, Massumeh

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