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"tombstone": "Left side of a double-page album folio: Outside a Royal Encampment (recto), c. 1485. Style of Bihzad (Iranian, active 1470\u20131506). Opaque watercolor and gold on paper; image: 24.4 x 14.1 cm (9 5/8 x 5 9/16 in.); overall: 27 x 17.2 cm (10 5/8 x 6 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Edward L. Whittemore Fund, 1944.490.a",
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"title": "Left side of a double-page album folio: Outside a Royal Encampment (recto)",
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"id": 519268,
"title": "Muslim Miniature Paintings",
"description": "Muslim Miniature Paintings. Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, Italy, Venezia, Italy (organizer) (September 1-October 31, 1962); The Asia Society Museum, New York, NY (December 4, 1962-February 3, 1963).",
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"id": 517994,
"title": "The Classical Style in Islamic Painting",
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"id": 294015,
"title": "Arts of Iran (Islamic art rotation)",
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"description": "International Exhibition of Persian Art. Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK (January 7-February 28, 1931). [Lent by Philip Hofer, New York]",
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"description": "Islamic Miniature Painting and Book Illumination. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (October 9, 1933-January 7, 1934).",
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"description": "Islamic and Indian Miniature Paintings and Manuscripts. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (December 15, 1955-February 19, 1956).",
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"description": "Exhibition of Persian Art. Istituto Italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente, Rome, Italy (May-October 1956).",
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"description": "7000 Ans d'art en Iran. Petit Palais, Paris, France (October-November 1961).",
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"description": "Muslim Miniature Paintings from American Collections. Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, Italy; Asia House, New York, NY (September 1962-February 1963).",
"opening_date": "1962-09-01T00:00:00"
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"description": "The Classical Style in Islamic Painting.... Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, NY (November 6, 1968-January 4, 1969).",
"opening_date": "1968-11-06T00:00:00"
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"description": "Imperial Images in Persian Painting. The Scottish Arts Council, Edinburgh, Scotland (August 13-September 11, 1977).",
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"description": "(Philip Hofer [1898\u20131984], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)",
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"did_you_know": "Intoxicated, a man in blue at the lower right has fallen.",
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"description": "The painting is the left side of a double composition; at the upper left are musicians who provide ambient entertainment. A cook prepares meat over a brazier, while a servant brings kebab on a shallow bowl. The unfinished state of this painting reveals the artist's process of creating underdrawings that are filled with color. The verso has an example of calligraphy.",
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"citation": "Martin, F. R. The Miniature Painting and Painters of Persia, India and Turkey, from the 8th to the 18th Century. London: B. Quaritch, 1912.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: Vol. I, p. 43; Reproduced: Vol. II pl. 68",
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"citation": "Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), and Maurice Sven Dimand. A Guide to an Exhibition of Islamic Miniature Painting and Book Illumination. [Portland, Me.]: [The Southworth Press], 1933.",
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"citation": "Hollis, Howard. \"Three Iranian Miniatures.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 32, no. 4 (1945): 35\u201341.",
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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. 723",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n132"
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"citation": "Grube, Ernst J. Muslim Miniature Paintings from the XIII to XIX Century from Collections in the United States and Canada. Catalogue of the Exhibition. Venezia: N. Pozza, 1962.",
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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.",
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"citation": "Grube, Ernst J, and Pierpont Morgan Library. The Classical Style in Islamic Painting: The Early School of Herat and Its Impact on Islamic Painting of the Later 15th, the 16th and 17th Centuries: Some Examples in American Collections. Place of publication not identified: Edizioni Oriens, 1968.",
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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.",
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