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the period of 1465-153
Persian illustrator. The most famous master of Persian painting, he is important both for the paintings he executed and for the wider influence of the style associated with his name. Evidently orphaned at a young age, Bihzad is said to have been raised and trained by MIRAK, a painter and calligrapher employed in Herat by Husayn Bayqara.
His Ministers plead with the Sasanian king Hurmuzd to forgive his son Khusro
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Illustration attributed to Bihzad from the romance Prince Kusro and Queen Shirin in Nizami\'s Khamseh copied for the Timurid emir Ali Farsi Barlas
Herat
1494-95
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