File:Gulzar calligraphic panel (Gulzar script).jpg
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artist QS:P170,Q5716977 |
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Object type | calligraphy | ||||||||||
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English: This calligraphic panel executed in black and red on a white ground decorated in gold contains a number of prayers (du'as) directed to God, the Prophet Muhammad, and his son-in-law 'Ali. The letters of the larger words are executed in nasta'liq script and filled with various decorative motifs, animals, and human figures. The human figures standing side-by-side in the central horizontal letter represent the eleven Shi'i imams and (a kneeling) Imam ‘Ali, holding his double-edged sword Dhu al-Fiqar.
All around the larger letters composed in the nasta'liq style and filled with motifs appear smaller Shi'i prayers purposefully executed in a number of different scripts. These include thuluth, naskh, nasta'liq, shikastah, tawqi', and Kufi. One inscription is even written in reverse, as if executed with the help of a mirror. The sheer variety of these scripts, along with the larger central gulzar composition, was intended to showcase Husayn Zarrin Qalam's mastery of all the major calligraphic scripts. |
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Date | 1212 H / 1797-8 AD | ||||||||||
Dimensions |
height: 22.6 cm (8.8 in); width: 36.9 cm (14.5 in) dimensions QS:P2048,22.6U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,36.9U174728 |
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Source/Photographer | Library of Congress | ||||||||||
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