"Isfandiyar's Third Course: He Slays a Dragon", Folio 434v from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp

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Isfandiyar's Third Course: He Slays a Dragon', Folio 434v from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp, ca. 1530, Made in Iran, Tabriz, Opaque watercolor, ink, silver, and gold on paper, Painting: H. 11 in. ( cm), Codices, Painting attributed to Qasim ibn 'Ali (active ca. 1525–60), This dramatic image illustrates the third of seven challenges, or courses, that Prince Isfandiyar underwent en route to freeing his sisters from captivity in Turan. Learning that he would encounter a dragon on his perilous path, Isfandiyar ordered a horse-drawn cart with a box in which he could hide and from which spears projected

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