timurid sultanate heratconcept:era early modern
The Seduction of Yusuf
Persian manuscript-painting seed node used to diversify the graph beyond Western easel painting and East Asian print/landscape paths.
Scholarly Significance
Broaden the graph into Islamic manuscript art and Persian painting traditions.
Notes
- ·This seed broadens the graph into manuscript-painting and Islamic courtly visual traditions.
- ·The painting is folio 52v of the Bustan of Sa'di, Bodleian Library copy (MS Elliott 287), dated 1488 CE, produced at the royal atelier in Herat under Sultan Husayn Bayqara.
- ·Attribution to Bihzad is accepted by the Metropolitan Museum and the art-historical consensus.