Title

Bizhan Slaughters the Wild Boars of Irman, Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi, ca. 1330-40.

Caption

Bizhan Slaughters the Wild Boars of Irman, Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings)..., c1330-40. Creator: Unknown.

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM20A65_195

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Rights managed

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47,4Mb (7,1Mb) / 11,1in x 16,5in / 3343 x 4960 (300dpi)

Keywords

animal people male man men arts painting country metal writing law book guy pig crime weapon weapons museum color death gold armour war location century sword ink murder blade literature Iran Iranian swords miniature concept script killing hero swine hog slaughter heroic wild boar warfare wild boars heroism Colour Armenia Armenian The Met Metropolitan Museum of Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art poem poetry weaponry Persian Persia gold leaf 14th century chain mail Fourteenth Century Book of Kings chainmail murdering Shahnama Shahnameh Shah-nameh slaughtering slaying TGN watercolour manuscript Unknown Farsi Ferdowsi Firdawsi Abu Ol-qasem Mansur Firdausi Firdaws¯i Eurasian wild pig Heritage Art Nasta'liq Nastaliq epic poem (Abu Ol-qasem Mansur) (Firdausi) Abu'l Qasim Firdausi Bizhan Bijan