Wonders of the Age: Masterpieces of Early Safavid Painting, 1501-1576
Softcover
1979 · Cambridge, Massachusetts
by Welch, Stuart Cary
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, 1979. Softcover. VG+. Covers bowed and/or show general shelf and edge wear, tanning. Owner's name in front cover on one copy.. Off-white/yellow & color illus. wraps. 223 pp. Approx. 100 color and bw plates and figures. From a traveling exhibition of the same name that appeared at the British Library in London, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It "brings together a superb collection of exquisite miniatures, presenting a comprehensive view of painting in the years from the beginning of the sixteenth century until the death of Shah Tahmasp in 1576. The exhibition represents probably the greatest assemblage of sixteenth-century Iranian painting seen together in four hundred years and includes some of the finest Persian miniatures ever created." (foreword). (Inventory #: 116048)