The title of the show draws from the Persian term, musawwari, referring to the traditional style of miniature painting in South Asia. According to curator Khushboo Jain, the art form has been ...
Shahzia Sikander is an American-Pakistani artist whose eclectic work merges contemporary issues of Middle Eastern identity with art-historical references. Fusing traditional Indo-Persian miniature ...
They contained the text, binding and 118 miniature paintings from Shah Tahmasp’s Shahnameh, a 16th-century Persian manuscript and one of the wonders of Islamic art. The Iranians handed over ...
Drawing from the rich heritage of 15th and 16th-century Persian miniature paintings and illuminated manuscripts, Sheikhvand creates pieces that honor traditional craftsmanship while pushing the ...