Cream coloured paper boarder with rectangular text box with four columns of text at the top and painting below depicting an interior scene of soldiers holding a man upside down who they have just de-crowed.
AKM446, The Blinding of King Hormuzd by Banduy and Gustaham

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Cream coloured paper with a rectangular text box featuring 4 full columns of script. Three rectangles spanning the second and third column hold one line of red script, aligned evenly in the top, middle and bottom.
AKM446, The Blinding of King Hormuzd by Banduy and Gustaham, Back

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The Blinding of King Hormuzd by Banduy and Gustaham
Folio from a manuscript of Shahnameh (Book of Kings) by Firdausi (d. 1020)
  • Accession Number:AKM446
  • Creator:paintings attributed to Mu‘in Musavvir (d. 1697)
  • Place:Iran, Isfahan
  • Dimensions:36.3 x 22.8 cm
  • Date:1666-1667
  • Materials and Technique:opaque watercolour, ink and gold on paper

  • After the death of his favourite commander and receiving constant threats of insurrection, King Hormuzd of Iran begins losing authority throughout Ctesiphon. Banduy and Gustaham, the king’s brothers-in-law, gather armed troops comprised of unhappy citizens and newly released prisoners to overthrow King Hormuzd. This painting shows the moments after these men and their troops have snatched the crown from Hormuzd’s head and are about to blind him.

     

    — Filiz Çakır Phillip

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