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    A Persian miniature (Persian: نگارگری ایرانی negârgari Irâni) is a small Persian painting on paper, whether a book illustration or a separate work of art...
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    of the Mughal Empire in the Indian subcontinent. It emerged from Persian miniature painting (itself partly of Chinese origin) and developed in the court...
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  • Miniature painting may refer to: Miniature (illuminated manuscript), a small illustration used to decorate an illuminated manuscript Persian miniature...
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  • text Arabic miniature, a small painting in an illuminated text Armenian miniature, a small painting in an illuminated text Persian miniature, a small painting...
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    exponents. The Persian miniature was the dominant influence on other Islamic miniature traditions, principally the Ottoman miniature in Turkey, and the...
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    style was developed from multiple cultural influences, such as the Persian Miniature art, as well as Byzantine and Mongol art. It was a part of the Ottoman...
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    also called miniatures, as the Western equivalents in watercolor and other media are not. These include Arabic miniatures, and their Persian, Mughal, Ottoman...
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    aesthetics. Images of Persian clothing examples can be seen in ancient art and Persian miniature paintings. Persian miniatures can employ both vivid and...
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    period. A new style emerged in the Mughal era as a fusion of the Persian miniature with older Indian traditions, and from the 17th century its style...
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    Shahnameh of Shah Tahmasp (category Iranian miniature painters)
    national epic of Greater Iran, and a high point in the art of the Persian miniature. It is probably the most fully illustrated manuscript of the text...
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  • 1983. Persian Miniature Painting and its Influence on the Art of Turkey and India. Austin: University of Texas, 159 Titley, Norah M. 1983. Persian Miniature...
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    Iran, and has a significant presence in Iranian mythology, Persian poetry and Persian miniatures. Recent archaeological research has pushed back the date...
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    in 623 A.H. (about 1226), Sultan Walad was about 20 years old. The Persian miniature illustrated here was painted in c. 1503, some 250 years after the...
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    A 15th-century Persian miniature...
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    Reza Abbasi (category Iranian miniature painters)
    considered to be the last great master of the Persian miniature, best known for his single miniatures for muraqqa or albums, especially single figures...
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    forms of Islamic miniatures (Persian miniatures, Ottoman miniatures and Mughal miniatures) owe their existences to Arabic miniatures, as Arab patrons...
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    school Superflat Korean Indonesian Arabic miniature Ottoman miniature Persian miniature Calligraphy Miniature paintings were the primary form of painting...
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    Mir Sayyid Ali (category Iranian miniature painters)
    Mir Sayyid Ali (Persian: میرسید علی, Tabriz, 1510 – 1572) was a Persian miniature painter who was a leading artist of Persian miniatures before working...
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    Muraqqa (category Articles containing Persian-language text)
    A Muraqqa ( Persian: مُرَقّع , Arabic: مورّقة Turkish: Murakka)[citation needed] is an album in book form containing Islamic miniature paintings and specimens...
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    The Samanid Empire (Persian: سامانیان, romanized: Sāmāniyān), also known as the Samanian Empire, Samanid dynasty, Samanid amirate, or simply as the Samanids...
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    dev (Persian: Dīv/Dēw: دیو) (with the broader meaning of demons or fiends) are monstrous creatures within Middle Eastern lore, and probably Persian origin...
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    go in a book or album are called "miniatures", whether for a Western illuminated manuscript or in Persian miniature and its Turkish equivalent, or Indian...
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    never completed. It is the largest early book in the tradition of the Persian miniature, in which it is "the most magnificent manuscript of the fourteenth...
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    history, and appeared almost exclusively in the private medium of Persian and other miniature book illustration. The key medium of public religious art in...
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  • article contains Persian text. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. The Persians (/ˈpɜːrʒənz/ PUR-zhənz...
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    Illustration of a Sila seducing a man from a Persian miniature...
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    occurred in Bethlehem beside a palm tree with a manger. The 10th-century Persian scholar al-Tabari (839–923) mentions envoys arriving from the king of Persia...
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    manuscripts, as well as Persian miniatures. Although they are often described as "watercolor", Persian miniatures and Mughal miniatures are predominantly examples...
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    Abd al-Samad (category Iranian miniature painters)
    16th century painter of Persian miniatures who moved to India and became one of the founding masters of the Mughal miniature tradition, and later the...
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    wandering tribe known by the name of Sagartians – a people Persian in language, and in dress half Persian, half Pactyan, who furnished the army as many as eight...
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