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"inscription": "\"For the successful nawab, the most honorable, most holy, and most high, [who is] of exalted position, it was drawn by the qalam of the humble Shafi' 'Abbasi in the year 1062 (1651\u201352 AD).\"",
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"title": "The Arts of Isfahan",
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"title": "Islamic art rotation",
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"description": "In Iran between the 1630s and 1650s, the court painter Shafi\u2019 \u2018Abbasi, son of the renowned painter Riza \u2018Abbasi, specialized in a new fashion depicting naturalistic plants and birds, some adapted from European sources such as botanical engravings or herbals. Several have been identified as patterns for textiles, evidenced by pricked holes along the contours, which allowed designs to be transferred to another surface. The inscription indicates that Shafi\u2019 \u2018Abbasi made this painting for Shah Abbas II in 1651-52. Presumably, he copied this composition from a European engraving.",
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"citation": "Lippman, Thomas W. \"Thirteen Centuries of Islamic Art and Science.\" Smithsonian, Vol. 14, no. 3, June 1983, pp. 66\u201369.",
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"citation": "Turner, Howard R. Science in Medieval Islam: An Illustrated Introduction. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1997.",
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