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Beskrivning
As leading painter at the court of Shah 'Abbas I (1587-1629), Riza often expressed the progressive mood of Safavid Iran. This volume provides a catalogue of his work and analyses the relationship of his life to his stylistic development, which exerted enormous influence on other Iranian artists.
Safavid Iran; Riza's life and nomenclature; Riza's artistic milieu and early work; peasants, dandies and pilgrims - the 1590s; portraits of Isfahan; rebellion; manuscript illustrations; drawings after works by Bihzad; shaykhs, dervishes and courtiers -the 1620s; sirens, lovers and eccentrics. Appendices: historiography; checklist of dated works; rejected works and uncertain attributions.