Description
Get an exclusive curator's tour of the newly opened, extraordinary exhibition An Epic of Kings: The Great Mongol Shahnama. Each month, you'll have the chance to view this once-in-a-lifetime exhibition with expert perspectives from Simon Rettig, the museum's associate curator for the arts of the Islamic world.
An Epic of Kings presents a monumental illustrated copy of Iran’s national epic, the Shahnama. Learn how the medieval Mongol rulers used this manuscript to cement their place in Iran’s history, and encounter twenty-five folios alongside contemporaneous works from China to the Latin West.
Please meet at gallery 23 for these tours. View our schedule to see more detailed information.
Image: Taynush before Iskandar and the visit to the Brahmans, folio from the Great Mongol Shahnama (Book of kings) by Firdawsi (d.1020), National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution, Arthur M. Sackler Collection, Purchase —Smithsonian Unrestricted Trust Funds, Smithsonian Collections Acquisition Program, and Dr. Arthur M. Sackler, S1986.105.1.
