今天去大都会博物馆赶了一趟细密画,这是波斯(印度)艺术中让人
印象深刻的一种艺术形式。另外,这绘画里的故事都是波斯史诗,更
让我品之有味了。。。

Pearls of the Parrot of India: The Emperor Akbar's Illustrated "Khamsa," 1597–98

Poet Amir Khusrau Dihlavi's Khamsa (quintet of tales) was one of the most sumptuous manuscripts created for the great Mughal emperor and patron of the arts, Akbar. Twenty-nine surviving full-page illustrations from the manuscript are shared between the Metropolitan Museum and the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore. The unbinding of the Walters’s manuscript for conservation purposes allows all painted folios to be reunited, together with some illuminated text pages, in this jewel-like exhibition.


An old Sufi laments his lost youth when a male beauty in a garden rebuffs his amorous advances
Leaf from a dispersed manuscript of the Khamsa of Amir Khusrau Dihlavi
Inscribed: 'amal-i Lal
Lahore, present-day Pakistan, Mughal period, 1597–98


Khusrau and Shirin are entertained by musicians
Leaf from a dispersed manuscript of the Khamsa of Amir Khusrau Dihlavi
Inscribed: 'amal-i Manohar
Lahore, present-day Pakistan, Mughal period, 1597–98


Saddened by the news of Khusrau's marriage to Shakar, Shirin takes a ride with her maids and meets the sculptor Farhad
Leaf from a dispersed manuscript of the Khamsa of Amir Khusrau Dihlavi
Inscribed: 'amal-i Sanval
Lahore, present-day Pakistan, Mughal period, 1597–98


Laila and Majnun fall in love at school
Leaf from a dispersed manuscript of the Khamsa of Amir Khusrau Dihlavi
Inscribed: 'amal-i Dharmadas
Lahore, present-day Pakistan, Mughal period, 1597–98

这个故事玛雅曾经有译介的:

http://www.mayacafe.com/forum/topic1.php3?tkey=1076596445


The story of the princess of the Sandalwood Pavilion: a prince falsely accused of incest exonerates himself with the aid of magic spells taught to him by friends
Leaf from a dispersed manuscript of the Khamsa of Amir Khusrau Dihlavi
Inscribed: 'amal-i Mukund
Lahore, present-day Pakistan, Mughal period, 1597–98



The story of the princess of the Blue Pavilion: the youth of Rum is entertained in a garden by a fairy and her maidens
Leaf from a dispersed manuscript of the Khamsa of Amir Khusrau Dihlavi
Inscribed: 'amal-i Manohar
Lahore, present-day Pakistan, Mughal period, 1597–98

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转到这里来细细品味。