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"Isfandiyar's Third Course: He Slays a Dragon", Folio from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp
Abu'l Qasim Firdausi (935–1020)
Date: ca. 1530Accession Number: 1970.301.51
Designs for a Nativity or Adoration of the Christ Child; Perspectival Projection (recto); Slight Doodles (verso)
Leonardo da Vinci (Italian, Vinci 1452–1519 Clos-Lucé)
Date: 1480–85Accession Number: 17.142.1
Tughra (Official Signature) of Sultan Süleiman the Magnificent (r. 1520–66)
Date: ca. 1555–60Accession Number: 38.149.1
Three Allegorical Figures and Studies of a Seated Man
Circle of Lorenzo Monaco (Piero di Giovanni) (Italian, Florence (?) ca. 1370–1425 Florence (?))
Date: ca. 1420Accession Number: 1975.1.335
A Bear Walking
Date: ca. 1490Accession Number: 1975.1.369
"The Feast of Sada", Folio from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp
Date: ca. 1525Accession Number: 1970.301.2
"Farhad Carves a Milk Channel for Shirin", Folio from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami
Nizami (Ilyas Abu Muhammad Nizam al-Din of Ganja) (probably 1141–1217)
Date: A.H. 931/A.D. 1524–25Accession Number: 13.228.7.5
Samson and Delilah
Albrecht Altdorfer (German, (?) ca. 1480–1538 Regensburg)
Date: 1506Accession Number: 06.1051.2
Gibbons in a Landscape
Attributed to Sesson Shūkei (ca. 1504–ca. 1589)
Date: ca. 1570Accession Number: 1992.8.1, .2
"Khusrau Hunting", Folio from Khusrau and Shirin
Hatifi
Date: dated A.H. 904/A.D. 1498–99Accession Number: 69.27
"The Eavesdropper", Folio from a Haft Paikar (Seven Portraits) of the Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami
Maulana Azhar (d. 1475/76)
Date: ca. 1430Accession Number: 13.228.13.6
Kitab suwar al-kawakib al-thabita (Book of the Images of the Fixed Stars) of al-Sufi
`Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (903–86)
Date: late 15th centuryAccession Number: 13.160.10
Set of Fifty-Two Playing Cards
Date: ca. 1470–80Accession Number: 1983.515.1–.52
"Dancing Dervishes", Folio from a Divan of Hafiz
Painting attributed to Bihzad (ca. 1450–1535/36)
Date: ca. 1480Accession Number: 17.81.4
"Tahmuras Defeats the Divs", Folio from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp
Date: ca. 1525Accession Number: 1970.301.3
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