Description
Get an exclusive curator's tour of the newly opened 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 this fourteenth-century manuscript functioned as propaganda for the Mongol rulers of Iran, and discover twenty-five folios alongside contemporaneous works from China and the Latin West.
Please meet at gallery 23 for these tours. View our schedule to see more detailed information.Accessibility: The public elevator in the West Building (Freer Gallery of Art) is out of service, so your route to the event location may take a few more minutes than usual. Use the accessible entrance at the corner of Independence Avenue and 12th Street SW, and follow the directions when you arrive. Get more accessibility details.
Accessibility: The public elevator in the West Building (Freer Gallery of Art) is out of service, so your route to the event location may take a few more minutes than usual. Use the accessible entrance at the corner of Independence Avenue and 12th Street SW, and follow the directions when you arrive. Get more accessibility details.
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.
