The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Islamic Art
"Sakyamuni (Buddha) Announces Another Prophet", Folio from a Majma al-Tavarikh (Compendium of Histories)
Hafiz-i Abru
- Date
- ca. 1425
- Medium
- Opaque watercolor, silver, and gold on paper
- Dimensions
- Painting: H. 6 in. (15.2 cm) W. 8 7/8 in. (22.5 cm) Page: H. 16 3/4 in. (42.5 cm) W. 12 1/2 in. (31.8 cm) Mat: H. 19 1/4 in. (48.9 cm) W. 14 1/4 in. (36.2 cm)
- Object type
- Folio from an illustrated manuscript
- Classification
- Codices
- Country
- present-day Afghanistan
- Object number
- 57.51.37.1
- Credit line
- Cora Timken Burnett Collection of Persian Miniatures and Other Persian Art Objects, Bequest of Cora Timken Burnett, 1956
Artist information
Iranian, born Khorasan–1430 Zanjan
Subjects and terms
- Birds
- Men
- Trees
The Met object ID 451416. The source CSV marks this record public domain, the official API identifies it as image-bearing, and the image was reverified as public domain before this page rendered.