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accession number: 1943.658.b
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Bahram Gur Slays a Dragon (verso), from a Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi (940-1019 or 1025), known as the Great Mongol Shahnama, 1330–35. Iran, Tabriz, Ilkhanid period (1256-1353). Opaque watercolor, ink, and gold on paper; sheet: 45.8 x 34.4 cm (18 1/16 x 13 9/16 in.); image: 19.5 x 29.5 cm (7 11/16 x 11 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Grace Rainey Rogers Fund 1943.658.b
title: Bahram Gur Slays a Dragon (verso), from a Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi (940-1019 or 1025), known as the Great Mongol Shahnama
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creation date: 1330–35
creation date earliest: 1330
creation date latest: 1335
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creditline: Grace Rainey Rogers Fund
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culture: Iran, Tabriz, Ilkhanid period (1256-1353)
technique: opaque watercolor, ink, and gold on paper
department: Islamic Art
collection: Islamic Art
type: Manuscript
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measurements: Sheet: 45.8 x 34.4 cm (18 1/16 x 13 9/16 in.); Image: 19.5 x 29.5 cm (7 11/16 x 11 5/8 in.)
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inscription: Script: Naskh
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: The Classical Style in Islamic Painting
opening date: 1968-11-01T05:00:00
The Classical Style in Islamic Painting. The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY (organizer) (November 1, 1968-January 4, 1969).
title: Persian Miniature Manuscripts
opening date: 1977-08-13T04:00:00
Persian Miniature Manuscripts. The Scottish Arts Council Gallery, Edinburgh, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (organizer) (August 13-September 11, 1977).
title: The Legacy of Genghis Khan: Courtly Art and Culture in Western Asia 1256-1353
opening date: 2002-10-28T00:00:00
The Legacy of Genghis Khan: Courtly Art and Culture in Western Asia 1256-1353. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (organizer) (October 28, 2002-February 16, 2003); Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (April 13-July 27, 2003).
title: Islamic art rotation
opening date: 2013-12-16T05:00:00
Islamic art rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 16, 2013-December 15, 2014).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'International Exhibition of Persian Art. Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK (January 7-February 28, 1931).', 'opening_date': '1931-01-07T05:00:00Z'}
* {'description': 'Islamic Miniature Painting and Book Illumination. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (October 9, 1933-January 7, 1934).', 'opening_date': '1933-10-09T05:00:00Z'}
* {'description': 'Persian Art. Iranian Institute, New York, NY (1940).', 'opening_date': '1940-01-01T05:00:00Z'}
* {'description': 'Islamic and Indian Miniature Paintings and Manuscripts. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (December 15, 1955-February 19, 1956).', 'opening_date': '1955-12-15T05:00:00Z'}
* {'description': 'Exhibition of Persian Art. Istituto Italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente, Rome, Italy (May-October 1956).', 'opening_date': '1956-05-01T04:00:00Z'}
* {'description': 'Islamic Art Exhibition. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (April 9-May 17, 1959).', 'opening_date': '1959-04-09T05:00:00Z'}
* {'description': "7000 Ans d'art en Iran. Petit Palais, Paris, France (October-November 1961).", 'opening_date': '1961-10-01T04:00:00Z'}
* {'description': 'Muslim Miniature Paintings from American Collections. Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, Italy; Asia House, New York, NY (September 1962-February 1963).', 'opening_date': '1962-09-01T04:00:00Z'}
* {'description': 'Imperial Images in Persian Painting. The Scottish Arts Council, Edinburgh, Scotland (August 13-September 11, 1977).', 'opening_date': '1977-08-13T04:00:00Z'}
* {'description': 'Main Gallery Rotation (gallery 116). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 30, 2018–January 4, 2019).', 'opening_date': '2018-10-30T04:00:00Z'}
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PROVENANCE
(Georges Demotte [1877–1923], New York, NY)
date: c. 1910–?
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Grace Rainey Rogers [1867–1943], New York, NY
date: before 1943
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(Heeramaneck Galleries, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
date: ?–1943
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1943–
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Exhibition of Persian Art (1931, London). Catalogue of the International Exhibition of Persian Art: 7th Jan. to 28th Feb., 1931. 1931.
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Komaroff, Linda, and Stefano Carboni. The Legacy of Genghis Khan: Courtly Art and Culture in Western Asia, 1256-1353. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2002.
page number: 257 and 160
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Curatola, Giovanni, and Gianroberto Scarcia. Iran: l'arte persiana. Milano: Jaca Book, 2004.
page number: 198-199
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Erdman, Kurt. "La Mostra d'arte Persiana a Londra." Dedalo XI (April 1931).
page number: 826
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Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain), Laurence Binyon, Basil Gray, and J. V. S. Wilkinson. Persian Miniature Painting. Including a Critical and Descriptive Catalogue of the Miniatures Exhibited at Burlington House, January-March, 1931. By Laurence Binyon, J.V.S. Wilkinson and Basil Gray. London: Oxford University Press, 1933.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), and Dimand, Maurice Sven. A Guide to an Exhibition of Islamic Miniature Painting and Book Illumination / by M. S. Dimand. New York : The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1933. .
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Lorey, E. de. ""L'Ecole de Tabriz." Revue des Arts Asiatiques I (1935).
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Brian, Doris. "A Reconstruction of the Miniature Cycle of the Demotte Shahnama." Ars Islamica VI, pt. 2 (1939).
page number: 110
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Schroeder, Eric. "Ahmed Musa and Shams al-Din: A Review of Fourteenth Century Painting." Ars Islamica VI, pt 2 (1939).
page number: 132-133
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Iranian Institute of America (New York, N.Y.), and Phyllis Ackerman. Guide to the Exhibition of Persian Art : ... New York, 1940. New York (N.Y.): > Iranian Institute, 1940.
page number: 246
url:
Parke-Bernet Galleries. French XVIII Century Furniture, Paintings, Drawings, Etc., Collection of Grace Rainey Rogers 1943/11/18-20. [N.Y.]: [Parke-Bernet galleries, Inc., auctioneers], 1943.
page number: 140
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Dimand, M.S. "An Exhibition of Islamic and Indian Paintings." Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art XIV (Dec. 1955).
page number: 86
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Istituto italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente (Roma). Mostra D'arte Iranica: Catalogo, Palazzo Brancaccio, Roma, Giugno-Agosto 1956 = Exhibition of Iranian Art : Catalogue, Palazzo Brancaccio, Roma, June-August 1956. Milano: Silvana editoriale d'arte, 1956.
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University of Michigan. Persian Art Before and After the Mongol Conquest [Exhibition] April 9-May 17, 1959, the University of Michigan, Museum of Art, Ann Arbor. 1959. .
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Paris. Sept mille ans d'art en Iran: [exposition], Petit Palais, octobre 1961-janvier 1962. Paris: Petit Palais, 1962.
page number: 192
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Rosenzweig, Daphne Lange. "Stalking the Persian Dragon: Chinese Prototypes for Miniature Representations." Kunst des Orients XII 1/2 (1978-1979).
page number: 151-176
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Grabar, Oleg, and Sheila Blair. Epic Images and Contemporary History: The Illustrations of the Great Mongol Shahnama. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1980.
page number: 154-155
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Williams, Marjorie. "Dragons, Porcelains and Demons: Cultural Exchange Between China and Persia." Orientations vol. 18 no. 8 (August 1986).
page number: 86
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Lentz, Thomas W. Timur and the Princely Vision: Persian Art and Culture in the Fifteenth Century : [Exhibition, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., 16.04.-06.07.1989 ... Etc.]. [S.l.]: [s.n.], 1989.
page number: 53
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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. 720
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n131
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. 221
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n245
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. 221
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n245
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. 278
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n298
Komaroff, Linda, and Stefano Carboni, eds. The Legacy of Genghis Khan: Courtly Art and Culture in Western Asia, 1256-1353. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press [distributor], 2002.
page number: Reproduced: cat no. 56, p. 257, fig. 187, p. 160
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Curatola, Giovanni, and Gianroberto Scarcia. Iran: l'arte persiana. Milano: Jaca Book, 2004.
page number: Reproduced: fig.162, pp. 198-199
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Hagedorn, Annette, and Norbert Wolf. Islamic Art. Hong Kong: Taschen, 2009.
page number: Reproduced: fig. 16, p. 18
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Coffey, Heather. "Collapsing Geography and Orientalizing Pigment in a Fourteenth-Century Chromoshpere: Italian Painting and Ilkhanid Ceramics." In The Seas and the Mobility of Islamic Art. Radha Dalal, Sean E. Roberts, and Jochen A. Sokoly eds., 38-53. Biennial Hamad bin Khalifa Symposium on Islamic Art and Culture, 2021. New Haven: Yale University Press; [Ar-Rayyan, Qatar]: in association with Qatar Foundation; [Richmond, Virginia]: Virginia Commonwealth University; [Education City, Doha, Qatar]: and Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts in Qatar, 2021.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 47, fig. 2.5
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