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| Deutsch: Ḏū l-Qarnain baut eine Mauer gegen Gog und Magog
English: "Iskandar Oversees the Building of the Wall"[2]العربية: رسمٌ يظهر بناء سد يأجوج ومأجوج (   ) |
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| Artist |
Deutsch: Iranischer Meister (unbekannt) English: attributable to 'Abd al-'Aziz[1] |
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| Title |
Deutsch: Ḏū l-Qarnain baut eine Mauer gegen Gog und Magog
English: "Iskandar Oversees the Building of the Wall"[2] العربية: رسمٌ يظهر بناء سد يأجوج ومأجوج |
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| Object type | painting | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Description |
English: Iskandar (Alexander the Great) oversees the building of the wall to fend off the Yajuj and Majuj people (Gog and Magog). This artist depicts a group of demons (div) helping in the task, even though that is not normally in the story.[2] A miniature from a Book of Divinations (Falnama) [of Ja'far al-Sadiq[1]] made for Tahmasp I (r. 1524–76)[2] |
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| Date | between circa 1550 and circa 1560[2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium |
English: opaque watercolor and gold on paper[1] |
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| Dimensions | height: 59.4 cm (23.3 in); width: 45 cm (17.7 in)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Collection |
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| Current location |
Dublin |
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| Accession number |
Per 395.1 |
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| Place of creation | Iran | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Deutsch: Buchmalerei |
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| Source/Photographer | The Yorck Project (2002) 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei (DVD-ROM), distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH. ISBN: 3936122202. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Permission (Reusing this file) |
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Licensing
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The work of art depicted in this image and the reproduction thereof are in the public domain worldwide. The reproduction is part of a collection of reproductions compiled by The Yorck Project. The compilation copyright is held by Zenodot Verlagsgesellschaft mbH and licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.
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- ↑ a b c d Hunt for Paradise: Court Art of Safavid Iran 1501–1576[2], Skira, 2003, ISBN 9780878480937, page 126
- ↑ a b c d Chester Beatty gallery description
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