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3 - Seated Youth
Riza Abbasi
DATE Circa 1600
AUTHOR Riza Abbasi (ca. 1565 - 1635) Isfahan - Persia
MEDIA Opaque watercolor, ink, and gold on paper
SIZE Unknown
LOCATION USA - Washington DC - Smithsonian Institution
NOTES Individual illustrations were assembled in albums (muraqqa'), and frequently incorporated writing or were paired with lyrical verses. Others consisted of figural compositions and poems artfully assembled into a visually coherent whole. One of the most popular subject matters consisted of idealized types, such as the handsome youth, or the wise old master, already familiar from Persian poetry. By drawing on a conventionalized body of imagery, single-page compositions can be interpreted as pictorial equivalents of poetic sentiments and "visual poems" in their own right.
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