"Yazdigird II Accedes to the Throne", Folio 592r from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp ca. 1530–35 Abu'l Qasim Firdausi The aged shah Bahram Gur named his son Yazdigird II as his successor. Upon the death of his father, Yazdigird called his noblemen together and, seated on the Golden Throne of Iran, exhorted them to act with justice, humanity, and wisdom. The simplicity of this composition, with the king enthroned between two evenly balanced groups of courtiers, is typical of the later phases of production of the Shahnama and of the work of second-generation artists such as Bashdan
"Yazdigird II Accedes to the Throne", Folio 592r from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp ca. 1530–35 Abu'l Qasim Firdausi The aged shah Bahram Gur named his son Yazdigird II as his successor. Upon the death of his father, Yazdigird called his noblemen together and, seated on the Golden Throne of Iran, exhorted them to act with justice, humanity, and wisdom. The simplicity of this composition, with the king enthroned between two evenly balanced groups of courtiers, is typical of the later phases of production of the Shahnama and of the work of second-generation artists such as Bashdan "Yazdigird II Accedes to the Throne", Folio 592r from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp 452175
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