Great Mongol Shahnameh

Painting · c. 1330 · Tabriz · Middle East

The first great illustrated Shahnameh: the Ilkhanid court fused Chinese and Iranian painting

Style: Persian miniature — The book painting as a garden: jewel-bright pigments, high horizon, no shadows
Century: 14th century

Made around the same time (±30 years)

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c. 1320 Kebra Nagast (Glory of the Kings) — Yeshaq of Aksum (compiler) · Aksum, Ethiopia
c. 1300 Ife Head · Ife and Benin bronzes · Ile-Ife, Nigeria
c. 1360 Messe de Nostre Dame — Guillaume de Machaut · Reims
c. 1315–1321 Chora Church · Byzantine art · Constantinople (Istanbul)
c. 1307 Jami' al-tawarikh (Compendium of Chronicles) — Rashid al-Din (text) · Persian miniature · Tabriz