The Court of Gayumars
A page of Tahmasp's Shahnameh with faces hidden in rocks; often called the finest Persian miniature
- Author
- Sultan Muhammad
- Style
- Persian miniature — The book painting as a garden: jewel-bright pigments, high horizon, no shadows
- Century
- 16th century
Made around the same time (±30 years)
- 1508–1512 Sistine Chapel ceiling — Michelangelo · Italian Renaissance · Vatican, Rome
- c. 1503–1519 Mona Lisa — Leonardo da Vinci · Italian Renaissance · Florence
- 1501–1504 David — Michelangelo · Italian Renaissance · Florence
- c. 1524–1540 Shahnameh of Shah Tahmasp · Persian miniature · Tabriz
- c. 1524–1534 Palazzo del Te — Giulio Romano · Mannerism · Mantua
- c. 1526–1530 Baburnama — Babur · Agra
- 1530–1532 Church of the Ascension, Kolomenskoye · Tented Churches · Kolomenskoye, Moscow
- 1533 The Ambassadors — Hans Holbein the Younger · Northern Renaissance · London
What was happening in the world
- 1517 Luther's Ninety-five Theses
- 1519–1522 Magellan's circumnavigation
- 1520–1566 Reign of Suleiman the Magnificent
- 1521 Fall of Tenochtitlan
- 1532 Capture of Atahualpa at Cajamarca
- 1508–1512 Sistine Chapel ceiling