Description
Enjoy an hour-long guided tour that closely examines monumental and boldly illustrated pages from one of the most celebrated medieval Persian manuscripts, the Great Mongol Shahnama. Immerse yourself in stories from Iran’s national epic, written in the eleventh century, and learn how artists three hundred years later interpreted this famed literary work.
Iskandar and the talking tree (detail), folio from the Great Mongol Shahnama (Book of kings), Iran, probably Tabriz, Ilkhanid dynasty, ca. 1330, ink, color, and gold on paper, National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution, Freer Collection, Purchase—Charles Lang Freer Endowment, F1935.23
