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Detail of "Rustam's seventh course: Killing of the White Div", from "The Book of Kings". Painting attributed to Mir Musavvir and and Abd al-Vahhad. Watercolor, ink, silver and gold on paper, painted about 1535. Part of the exhibit "Art and Stories of Mughal India" at the Cleveland Museum of Art in Cleveland, Ohio. Hakīm Abul-Qāsim Firdawsī Tūsī was a Persian poet who lived from 934 to 1020 AD. He wrote the "Shah-nama" (The Book of Kings) between 977 and 1010. The poem -- the national poem of Iran -- is broken into three sections: The mythic age, the heroic age, and the historic age. The heroic age covers about two-thirds of the work, and is chiefly about a wide range of Persian heroes who perform a wide range of physical, moral, and religious works. One of these is the warrior-hero Rustam. Like Hercules, he is given a specific number of labors (in this case, seven) to perform. The seventh labor is the killing of the White Div, chief of the demons. Rustam kidnapped a local ruler and forced him to act as his guide to the cave where the demon lived and how to slay it. The blood from the demon's liver would then be used to restore the sight of his Persian lord. In this detail, Rustam's horse, Rakhsh, grazes peacefully while his master battles the demon. Musavvir was invited to the Mughal court of King Humayun the Great in the 1550s. Humayun commissioned him to illustrate the "The Book of Kings", and there are roughly 140 pages in the completed work. |
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