Title

Iskandar Slays the Habash Monster, Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings), ca. 1330-40.

Caption

Iskandar Slays the Habash Monster, Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings), ca. 1330-40. Creator: Unknown.

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM20A67_334

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License type

Rights managed

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41,9Mb (5,7Mb) / 9,9in x 16,5in / 2955 x 4960 (300dpi)

Keywords

people male man men arts painting country metal writing book guy museum color death gold location century ink literature Iran Iranian miniature concept monster script killing Colour Macedonia Macedonian The Met Metropolitan Museum of Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art poem poetry Persian Persia gold leaf 14th century Fourteenth Century Book of Kings Shahnama Shahnameh Shah-nameh TGN Alexander the Great watercolour manuscript Unknown Farsi King of Macedonia Alexander III of Macedon Iskander Iskandar Ferdowsi Firdawsi Abu Ol-qasem Mansur Firdausi Firdaws¯i Alexander III of Macedonia Heritage Art Nasta'liq Nastaliq epic poem (Abu Ol-qasem Mansur) (Firdausi) Abu'l Qasim Firdausi