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"The Four Knights of Kai Khusrau in the Mountains", Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings)
Author Abu'l Qasim Firdausi (Iranian, Paj ca. 940/41–1020 Tus)
Calligrapher Hasan ibn Muhammad ibn `Ali ibn (?) Husaini, known as al-Mausili
Patron Commissioned by al-Hasan Qawam al-Daula wa'l-Din
dated 741 AH/1341 CE
- Medium
- Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- Classification
- Codices
- Dimensions
- Page: H. 14 1/2 in. (36.8 cm) W. 11 5/16 in. (28.7 cm) Painting: H. 6 3/8 in. (16.2 cm) W. 9 5/16 in. (23.6 cm) Mat: H. 22 in. (55.9 cm) W. 16 in. (40.6 cm)
- Culture
- Iran
- Museum
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Islamic Art
- Credit line
- Rogers Fund, 1936
- Rights
- Public domain (Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
