'Luhrasp Hears from the Returning Paladins of the Vanishing Kai Khusrau', Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi, 1576–77, Made in Iran, Qazvin, Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper, H. 18 1/2 in. (47 cm), Codices, Painting attributed to Siyavush (ca. 1536–1610), The illustration is one of fifty-five dispersed folios from a Shahnama thought to have been commissioned by the Safavid ruler Shah Isma'il II (r. 1576–77). Siyavush, the painter of this work, worked in the royal atelier of Shah Isma'il’s father Shah Tahmasp and continued to work at the Safavid court after Shah Tahmasp’s death
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