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"title": "Balustrade Fragment with Animals from the residence of Hajji Hasan ibn Ibrahim ibn Muhammad",
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"id": 294015,
"title": "Arts of Iran (Islamic art rotation)",
"description": "Arts of Iran (Islamic art rotation). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 30, 2018-October 28, 2019).",
"opening_date": "2018-10-30T04:00:00"
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{
"id": 342622,
"title": "Al-Andalus: Art from Islamic Spain (Islamic art rotation)",
"description": "Al-Andalus: Art from Islamic Spain (Islamic art rotation). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 29, 2019-October 25, 2020).",
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"date": "?\u20131938",
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"did_you_know": "This balustrade and two others, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Louvre in Paris, are from a building probably in the city of Hamadan, Iran.",
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"description": "This architectural relief shows a lion attacking a bull surrounded by other predators pursuing their prey, with scrolling vegetal motifs filling the spaces between. Scenes of powerful predators in the act of hunting and capturing other animals echo the royal imagery of pre-Islamic Iran.
This piece was part of a balustrade in a private home; the owner and construction date are known from another fragment from the same building. The building was embellished when the Mongols controlled Iran, and the relief shows a continuity in style from carvings made during the preceding Turkic Seljuk period (1037\u20131194). Under Turkic and Mongol rule in Iran, Islamic injunctions against making figural imagery were loosened.",
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"citation": "Comparable material: End of Balustrade in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, object number: 32.15.1.",
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"url": "https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/448658?sortBy=Relevance&ft=iran+balustrade&offset=0&rpp=20&pos=2"
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"citation": "Upton, Joseph. \"Persian Sculptures of the Fourteenth Century.\" Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art vol. 27 no. 9 (Sept. 1932).",
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"citation": "Hollis, Howard. \"An Iranian Balustrade.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 26, no. 2 (February 1939): 18.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 18; Reproduced: p. 27",
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 685",
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 208",
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 208",
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 264",
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"citation": "Redford, Scott. \"Thirteenth-Century Rum Seljuq Palaces and Palace Imagery.\" Ars Orientalis vol. 23 (1993): 219\u2013236.",
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