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13 août 2012

Prince Reclining, ca. 1530. Aqa Mirak. Safavid period.

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Prince Reclining, ca. 1530. Aqa Mirak. Safavid period. Opaque watercolor, ink, and gold on paper. H: 33.6 W: 21.2 cm. Tabriz, Iran. Purchase--Smithsonian Unrestricted Trust Funds, Smithsonian Collections Acquisition Program, and Dr. Arthur M. Sackler S1986.300© 2012 Smithsonian Institution
 
This composition, attributed to the celebrated painter Aqa Mirak, embodies sixteenth-century Persian ideals of beauty and sophistication. The reclining youth is dressed in sumptuous clothing and holds up an open book inscribed with a poem that establishes a literary parallel to his refinement. Written in minute characters, it refers to the legendary beauty of Yusuf, the biblical Joseph, who was considered the ideal man in Islamic mysticism.

Fate granted such beauty to the face of Yusuf
Try to draw such [beauty] for your face, O slave.

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