Court of Gayumars (patg, recto; text, verso), fol om a mancript of the Shahnama by Firdawsi | Harvard Art Mms

Contents:

• THE COURT OF GAYUMARS
• 2002.50.150: COURT OF GAYUMARS (PATG, RECTO; TEXT, VERSO), FOL OM A MANCRIPT OF THE SHAHNAMA BY FIRDAWSI
• THE ABSOLUTE HEIGHT OF ARTISTRY: THE COURT OF GAYUMARS, OM THE SHAHNAMA
• COURT OF GAYUMAR PATED BY SULTAN MUHAMMAD
• THE COURT OF GAYUMARS

THE COURT OF GAYUMARS

Nancy DemerdashThe ShahnamaThis sumptuo page, The Court of Gayumars (also spelled Kayumars— see top of page, tails below and large image here), om an illumated mancript of the Shahnama (Book of Kgs)—an epic poem scribg the history of kgship Persia (what is now Iran). As wh many of the workshops of early morn Wt Asia, producg a page such as the Court of Gayumars often entailed the ntributns of many artists. It was then when Gayumars beme the Kg of the World.

Seated a cross-legged posn, as if levatg wh this richly vegetal and mountao landspe, Kg Gayumars ris above his urtiers, who are gathered around at the base of the patg.

2002.50.150: COURT OF GAYUMARS (PATG, RECTO; TEXT, VERSO), FOL OM A MANCRIPT OF THE SHAHNAMA BY FIRDAWSI

Acrdg to legend, Kg Gayumars was the first kg of Persia, and he led at a time when people clothed themselv exclively leopard pelts, as both the text and the reprented subjects’ speckled garments dite. [11] Onlookers n be seen to surreptly peer out om the scraggly, blossomg branch onto Kg Gayumars om the upper left and right.

THE ABSOLUTE HEIGHT OF ARTISTRY: THE COURT OF GAYUMARS, OM THE SHAHNAMA

Canby affirms Stuart Cary Welch’s timate that took Sultan Muhammad and his workshop three years to plete the Court of Gayumars illtratn. Roxburgh, “On the Brk of Tragedy: The Court of Gayumars om Shah Tahmasp’s Shahnama (‘Book of Kgs’), Sultan Muhammad, ” Christopher Dell, ed., What Mak a Masterpiece: Artists, Wrers and Curators on the World’s Greatt Works of Art (London; New York: Tham & Hudson, 2010), pp.

COURT OF GAYUMAR PATED BY SULTAN MUHAMMAD

Court of Gayumars (patg, recto; text, verso), fol om a mancript of the Shahnama by Firdawsi.

THE COURT OF GAYUMARS

Gayumars was the legendary first kg of Iran, associated wh the begng of civilizatn and an anized social orr.

Gayumars had a son, Siyamak, whom he adored and who was loved by all save a jealo creature lled Ahriman. Siyamak ss to the left of Gayumars, and the two are encircled by urtiers and animals. Double page: The Court of Gayumars.

Recto: text and illtratn, wh tle “Kg Gayumars”.