"Farhad Carves a Milk Channel for Shirin", Folio 74 from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami, Painting by Shaikh Zada, 931

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Farhad Carves a Milk Channel for Shirin', Folio 74 from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami, 931 1524–25, Made in present-day Afghanistan, Herat, Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper, Painting: H. 8 3/8 in. ( cm), Codices, Painting by Shaikh Zada, In Nizami’s tale of Khusrau and Shirin, the princess Shirin has an ardent admirer in the talented sculptor and stonemason, Farhad. When Shirin desires milk from a herd of goats that graze in a distant field, Farhad sets to work cutting a channel from the goats’ mountain pastureland to a pool at the foot of Shirin’s palace

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Photo credit: © Artokoloro / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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