File:Iranischer Meister 001.jpg

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Deutsch: Ḏū l-Qarnain baut eine Mauer gegen Gog und Magog

English: "Iskandar Oversees the Building of the Wall"[2]

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Artist
Deutsch: Iranischer Meister (unbekannt)
English: attributable to 'Abd al-'Aziz[1]
Title
Deutsch: Ḏū l-Qarnain baut eine Mauer gegen Gog und Magog
English: "Iskandar Oversees the Building of the Wall"[2]
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Description
English: Iskandar (Alexander the Great) oversees the building of the wall to fend off the Yajuj and Majuj people (Gog and Magog). This artist depicts a group of demons (div) helping in the task, even though that is not normally in the story.[2]
A miniature from a Book of Divinations (Falnama) [of Ja'far al-Sadiq[1]] made for Tahmasp I (r. 1524–76)[2]
Date between circa 1550 and circa 1560
date QS:P571,+1550-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1550-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1560-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
[2]
Medium
English: opaque watercolor and gold on paper[1]
Dimensions height: 59.4 cm (23.3 in); width: 45 cm (17.7 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,59.4U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,45U174728
[1]
Chester Beatty Library
Current location
Dublin
Accession number
Per 395.1
Place of creation Iran
Notes
Deutsch: Buchmalerei
Source/Photographer The Yorck Project (2002) 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei (DVD-ROM), distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH. ISBN: 3936122202.
Permission
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Public domain
The work of art depicted in this image and the reproduction thereof are in the public domain worldwide. The reproduction is part of a collection of reproductions compiled by The Yorck Project. The compilation copyright is held by Zenodot Verlagsgesellschaft mbH and licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.
  1. ↑ a b c d Hunt for Paradise: Court Art of Safavid Iran 1501–1576[2], Skira, 2003, ISBN 9780878480937, page 126
  2. ↑ a b c d Chester Beatty gallery description

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