Farhad, Massumeh

"Praised by the New York Times as "a highly important exhibition book," this lavishly produced catalog reproduces illustrated texts from the groundbreaking exhibition at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. Called "fabulous" by the Washington Post, Falnama was the first show of its ki…

Falnama: the book of omens

by Mavroudi, Maria V., Farhad, Massumeh, Bağcı, Serpil, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery (Smithsonian Institution)

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"Praised by the New York Times as "a highly important exhibition book," this lavishly produced catalog reproduces illustrated texts from the groundbreaking exhibition at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. Called "fabulous" by the Washington Post, Falnama was the first show of its ki…

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 g…

Afḍal (Afżal) al-Ḥusaynī was a Ṣafavid artist whose career probably began during the reign of Shāh ʿAbbās I (996–1038/1587–1629). He was still active during the early years of the reign of ʿAbbās II (1052–77/1642–66). Most of his paintings are signed “Afḍal al-Ḥusaynī,” but a fe…