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Aqa Mirak

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Works ascribed to a youthful period in the 1520s have tautly composed landscapes inhabited by a few large-scale figures. A transitional period in the early 1530s was followed by mature works produced from the late 1530s to c. 1555, in which the compositions are more complex and the coloring more
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wrote that Aqa Mirak "had no peer in artistic design and was an incomparable painter, very clever, enamoured of his art, a bon vivant, an intimate and a sage". A manuscript of the Khamsa done between 1539 and 1543 has four illustrations bearing attributions to Aqa Mirak. Dickson and Welch have
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attributed other paintings to Aqa Mirak in the monumental copy of the Shahnama made for Tahmasp, and have used these attributions to define four periods in the artist's life.
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subtle. In the view of Dickson and Welch, at the end of his life the artist returned to his youthful style in two paintings for Ibrahim Mirza's copy of Jami's
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did wall paintings for Prince Sam Mirza's palace in Tabriz and illustrations for royal manuscripts including the
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and was well known in contemporary circles. Initially living in
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of Shah Tahmasp, attributed to Aqa Mirak (c. 1525–35)
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Faridun in the guise of a dragon test his sons, from the
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Aqa Mirak was a painter, purveyor and companion to the
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Persian
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Qazvin
Persian
painter
Safavid
shah
Tahmasp I
Tabriz
Mashhad
Qazvin
Dust Muhammad
Mir Musavvir
Shahnameh of Shah Tahmasp
Ferdowsi
Shahnameh
Nizami's Khamsa
Qazi Ahmad

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