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A Safavid ambassadress in Rome: the last testament of Teresa Sampsonia Shirley
03/2025 | 1464 | 167
Pages: 218–27
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Author:
Brown-Hedjazi, Alexandria (Brown-Hedjazi, Alexandria)
Subjects
artists:
Dyck, Anthony van / Hoskins, John
dates:
1600-1699
patrons:
Shirley, Teresa Sampsonia / Shirley, Robert
places:
Persia / Rome
subjects:
Wills / Funerary art / Carmelites / Safavid / Churches
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Last testament of Teresa Sampsonia Shirley, showing the witness signatures and seals. 1668. (Archivio di Stato di Roma, 30 Notai Capitolini, Officio 23, 1668 Maggio, fol.279r; Photograph the author).
Attributed works:
10. A lady called Teresia Sampsonia Shirley, by John Hoskins. 1620s. Watercolour on vellum. (Harley Gallery, Welbeck Estate, Nottinghamshire; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
2. Teresa, or Teresia Sampsonia, Lady Shirley, by Anthony Van Dyck. c.1622. Oil on canvas, 214 by 129 cm. (Petworth House; © NTPL; photograph Derrick E. Witty).
Attributed works:
3. Sir Robert Shirley, by Anthony Van Dyck. c.1622. Oil on canvas, 214 by 129 cm. (Petworth House; © NTPL; photograph Derrick E. Witty).
Attributed works:
4. Pre-printed template for visitors to the hospital adjoining S. Maria Egiziaca, Rome. 1664. (Archivio del Pontificio Collegio Armeno, fondo S. Maria Egiziaca, Rome, Giustificativi dei pagamenti 1656–1673; courtesy Pontificio Collegio Armeno; photograph C. Santus).
Attributed works:
6. Frontispiece from Girolamo Rocchi: Funerale della Signora Sitti Maani Gioerida della Valle, Rome 1627. (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, New Haven).
Attributed works:
7. Sketch of Lady Shirley, by Anthony van Dyck. 1622. Pen and brown ink on paper, 19.9 by 15.1 cm. (British Museum, London).
Attributed works:
9. Detail of Fig.1, rotated 180 degrees, showing the wax seal attached to Sampsonia’s last testament. (Photograph the author).
Western art unattributed:
5. Tombstone of Sampsonia and Robert Shirley, S. Maria della Scala, Rome. (Photograph the author).
Western art unattributed:
8. Detail of Fig.5, showing the Safavid Rampant Lion. (Photograph the author).
Exhibition Review
Luxury and Power: Persia to Greece
08/2023 | 1445 | 165
Pages: 895–898
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Reviewer:
Gardner-Dseagu, Christine (Gardner-Dseagu, Christine)
Subjects
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
British Museum, London, Great Britain
places:
Greece / Persia
styles:
Achaemenid / Parthian / Sassanian / Hellenistic / Greek (ancient) School
subjects:
Antiquity / Material culture (genre)
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Luxury and Power: Persia to Greece British Museum, London 4th May–13th August | :
Illustrations
Non-western art unattributed:
7. Plate showing a banqueting scene based on the triumph of Dionysos. Parthian or early Sasanian, 100– 300. Silver and gold, diameter 22.3 cm. (British Museum, London).
Western art unattributed:
8. Drinking mug in the form of a lion’s head. Greek, 500–470 BC. Pottery with redfigure decoration, height 14 cm. (British Museum, London).
Western art unattributed:
9. Rhyton terminating in a stag’s head decorated with episodes from the myths of Herakles and Theseus. Hellenistic (found in Panagyurishte, Bulgaria), c.300 BC. Gold, height 13.7 cm. (National Museum of History, Sofia; exh. British Museum, London).
Article
Cross-cultural diplomacy: a Safavid shield in the Medici armoury
10/2022 | 1435 | 164
Pages: 968-975
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Author:
Rokhgar, Negar Sarah (Rokhgar, Negar Sarah)
Subjects
artists:
Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da
dates:
1590-1609
media:
Mother of pearl / Gilding
museums and institutions:
Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence, Italy
patrons:
Shah Abbas, 1571-1629
places:
Persia / Tuscany
sources:
Archives / Correspondence
styles:
Safavid / Mughal
styles:
Indo-Persian School
subjects:
Shields (Armour) / Gifts / Ottomans (people) / Crusades / East-West trade / Diplomacy / Military art and science / Medici family / Ferdinando I, Grand Duke of Tuscany, 1549-1609
Illustrations
Attributed works:
4. Detail of the painted ceiling in the Sala dell’Armeria (Room 21), Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence, depicting a Persian soldier by Ludovico Buti. 1588–89. (Photograph the author).
Attributed works:
6. Medusa, by Caravaggio. 1595–98. Oil on canvas applied on a wooden shield, 60 by 55 cm. (Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence).
Non-western art unattributed:
1. Shield. Persia, late 16th century. Gold damascened steel, Indian cane, silk, mother-of-pearl, leather and velvet, diameter 64.5 cm. (Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence).
Non-western art unattributed:
2. Detail of Fig.1, showing figures serving food to an authority on a higher seat.
Non-western art unattributed:
3. Detail of Fig.1, showing men on horseback and on foot using spears and arrows to hunt lions.
Non-western art unattributed:
5. Silk fragment with a figured motif. Yazd, Persia, late 16th or early 17th century. Silk lampas, 70.5 by 36 cm. (Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence).
Non-western art unattributed:
7. Shield. Persia, 17th century. Indian cane covered with silk, metal umbo painted in black with golden arabesque engravings and originally embellished with turquoises and other precious stones, 20 by 62 cm. (Palazzo Ducale, Venice).
Non-western art unattributed:
8. Tray with a scene of lovers in a pavilion. Gujarat, late 16th or early 17th century. Mother-of-pearl and lacquer on wood, diameter 43.5 cm. (Aga Khan Museum, Toronto).
Exhibition Review
Epic Iran
09/2021 | 1422 | 163
Pages: 826-839
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Reviewer:
Babaie, Susan (Babaie, Susan)
Subjects
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Great Britain
places:
Iran / Persia
styles:
Achaemenid / Parthian / Sassanian / Islamic / Safavid
subjects:
History / Ceramics / Metalwork / Manuscripts / Archaeology / Architectural history / Mosques / Paintings / Silverwork
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Epic Iran Victoria and Albert Museum, London 29th May–12th September | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
4. Ladies around a samovar, by Isma’il Jalayir. c.1870s. Oil on canvas, 156.5 by 213 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
Non-western art unattributed:
1. Qaran unhorses Barman. Tabriz, Iran, c.1525–35. Ink, watercolour and gold on paper, 47 by 31.5 cm. (Private collection; exh. Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
Non-western art unattributed:
2. Figurine of a man. 3200–2900 BC. Bronze, height 17.5 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; exh. Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
Non-western art unattributed:
3. Full-size painted copy of a section of the interior of the dome of the Mosque of Sheikh Lutfallah, Isfahan. 1877. Oil and pigments on canvas, 1024 by 216 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
Book Review
The Look of the Book. Manuscript production in Shiraz, 1303–1452, E. Wright
06/2014 | 1335 | 156
Pages: 396
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Reviewer:
Rogers, J. M. (Rogers, J. M.; Rogers, John Michael; Rogers, Michael)
Subjects
dates:
1300-1499
places:
Iran / Persia
subjects:
Iranian / Illuminated manuscripts / Manuscripts / Manuscript illumination / Bookbindings
subjects:
Persian
Illustrations
Non-western art unattributed:
63. One half of a double-page frontispiece, Kulliyyåt of Sa'di (Chester Beatty Library, Dublin)
Publication Received
Forgotten Empire. The world of Ancient Persia
06/2006 | 1239 | 148
Pages: 430
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Subjects
museums and institutions:
British Museum, London, Great Britain
places:
Persia / Iran
print:
Decorative arts
subjects:
Exhibitions / Exhibition catalogues / Cultural history / History / Persian / Collections, Public
subjects:
Antiquity
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Forgotten Empire. The world of Ancient Persia | editor: Curtis, John , editor: Tallis, Nigel
Book Review
'Haft Awrang'. A Princely Manuscript from Sixteenth-Century Iran
08/1999 | 1157 | 141
Pages: 482-483
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Reviewer:
Rogers, J. M. (Rogers, J. M.; Rogers, John Michael; Rogers, Michael)
Subjects
dates:
1500-1599
places:
Persia / Iran
subjects:
Persian painting / Illuminated manuscripts
Reviewed Items
subjects:
'Haft Awrang'. A Princely Manuscript from Sixteenth-Century Iran | author: Simpson, Marianna Shreve
Article
A Manuscript Made for the Safavid Prince Bahrām Mīrzā
06/1991 | 1059 | 133
Pages: 376-384
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Author:
Simpson, Marianna Shreve (Simpson, Marianna Shreve)
Subjects
artists:
Dust Muhammad
dates:
1500-1549
museums and institutions:
Topkapi Sarayi Müzesi (Topkapi Museum), Istanbul, Turkey
patrons:
Bahram Mirza, Prince of Persia, 1517-1549
places:
Iran / Persia
subjects:
Persian painting / Illuminated manuscripts / Safavid
Illustrations
Attributed works:
46. Sarlauḥ on Folio 2b of Manuscript R.957. (Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul).
Attributed works:
50. Detail of Document by Muzaffar-'Alī in Fig.51. [Youth with Document Signed by Muzaffar-'Alī, Folio 1b of Manuscript R.957. Persian, Safavid Dynasty before 1549. 20.3 by 11.1 cm. (Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul).]
Attributed works:
51. Youth with Document Signed by Muzaffar-'Alī, Folio 1b of Manuscript R.957. Persian, Safavid Dynasty before 1549. 20.3 by 11.1 cm. (Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul).
Attributed works:
51b. Youth Playing the 'Setar'. By Shah-Maḥmūd. Folio 148a of Manuscript H.2154, 1543/44. (Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul).
Non-western art unattributed:
42. Lacquer-Painted Front Binding of Manuscript R.957. (Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul).
Non-western art unattributed:
43. Filigree Doublure Front Cover of Manuscript R.957. (Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul).
Non-western art unattributed:
44. Folios 17b-18a of Manuscript R.957 with Verses by 'Abd al-Rahman Jami. Persian, Safavid Dynasty before 1549. Each Sheet 20.3 by 11.1 cm. (Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul).
Non-western art unattributed:
45. Detail of Sarlauḥ from Fig.46. [Sarlauḥ on Folio 2b of Manuscript R.957. (Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul).]
Non-western art unattributed:
47. Opening Folios, 1b-2a of Manuscript R.957. Persian, Safavid Dynasty before 1549. Each Sheet 20.3 by 11.1 cm. (Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul).
Non-western art unattributed:
48. Youth with Book, Folio 2a of Manuscript R.957. Persian, Safavid Dynasty before 1549. 20.3 by 11.1 cm. (Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul).
Non-western art unattributed:
49. Detail of Inscription Beneath Youth with Book in Fig.48. [Youth with Book, Folio 2a of Manuscript R.957. Persian, Safavid Dynasty before 1549. 20.3 by 11.1 cm. (Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul).]
Book Review
L'Inde Des Legendes Et Des Realites, Miniatures Indiennes et Persanes De La Fondation Custodia (Coll. F. Lugt)
07/1986 | 1000 | 128
Pages: 517
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Reviewer:
Welch, Stuart Cary (Welch, Stuart Cary; Welch, Cary)
Subjects
museums and institutions:
Frits Lugt Collection, Fondation Custodia, Paris, France
places:
India / Persia / France / Paris
subjects:
Art museums / Catalogues
subjects:
Indian painting / Persian painting / Illuminated manuscripts
Reviewed Items
subjects:
L'Inde Des Legendes Et Des Realites, Miniatures Indiennes et Persanes De La Fondation Custodia (Coll. F. Lugt) | author: Gahlin, Sven , author: Hasselt, Carlos van
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
53. A Princeling Holding a Pomegranate Flower, from Deccan, India, c. 1670-80. 10.8 by 5.4 cm. (Institut Néerlandais, Paris).
Book Review
Persia, Siria, Bisanzio e il Medioevo artistico Europeo
11/1985 | 992 | 127
Pages: 819-820
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Reviewer:
Rogers, J. M. (Rogers, J. M.; Rogers, John Michael; Rogers, Michael)
Subjects
places:
Persia / Syria
subjects:
Byzantine art / Medieval
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Persia, Siria, Bisanzio e il Medioevo artistico Europeo | author: Francovich, Géza de
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