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"The Story of the Princess of the Blue Pavillion: The Youth of Rum Is Entertained in a Garden by a Fairy and her Maidens", Folio from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Amir Khusrau Dihlavi
Approximately one century after the Persian poet Nizami wrote his Khamsa (Quintet), the Indian poet Amir Khusrau Dihlavi composed a response using Nizami’s structure but varying his stories slightly. This painting comes from the Mughal emperor Akbar’s (r. 1550–1605) copy of Amir Khusrau’s verses. It depicts a story told by a princess to the king Bahram Gur, about a youth and the fairy queen he imagines meeting nightly in a lush garden.
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- Title: "The Story of the Princess of the Blue Pavillion: The Youth of Rum Is Entertained in a Garden by a Fairy and her Maidens", Folio from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Amir Khusrau Dihlavi
- Author: Amir Khusrau Dihlavi (Indian, Patiyali, 1253–1325 Delhi)
- Calligrapher: Muhammad Husain Kashmiri (Indian, active ca. 1560–1611)
- Artist: Painting by Manohar (active ca. 1582–1624)
- Date: 1597–98
- Geography: Attributed to India
- Medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- Dimensions: H. 9 3/4 in. (24.8 cm)
W. 6 1/4 in. (15.9 cm)
Frame:H. 25 in. (63.5 cm)
W. 19 in. (48.3 cm)
D. 1 in. (2.5 cm) - Classification: Codices
- Credit Line: Gift of Alexander Smith Cochran, 1913
- Object Number: 13.228.33
- Curatorial Department: Islamic Art
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