This is the first time that the illustrations in the manuscript—recently unbound and conserved—have all been exhibited together.

The Freer and Sackler Galleries, the Smithsonian’s museums of Asian art, are seeking creative, energetic, outgoing volunteers to serve as Gallery Teachers for the exhibition Shahnameh: 1000 Years of the Persian Book of Kings. Gallery Teachers converse with visitors about art and culture, building cross-cultural bridges and encouraging guests to share their perspectives and personal [...]

Intricately detailed and sumptuously painted images of kings, heroes and mythological creatures from the Shahnameh, Iran’s national epic and one of the world’s greatest literary masterpieces, will be on view in “Shahnama (sic): 1000 Years of the Persian Book of Kings” at the Sackler Gallery Oct. 23 – April 17, 2011. Completed in ca. 1010 [...]

“Why seekest thou to know Rostam the Pahlavān? Surely thou wilt know him in battle, and he shall strike thee dumb, and quell thy pride of youth. Yet I will not show him unto thee.“

Nader Davoodi is an award winning artist, photographer, photojournalist and publisher.  His work has at many times captured the zeitgeist of contemporary Iran. Nader Davoodi’s latest works visualise the poetry of the Mo’jjam History by the 13th century A.D. Iranian poet Ghazvini.  The compilations in the Mojj’am History chronicle Iran’s Shahs (kings) from the reign [...]

The Shahnameh (Book of Kings), was written by Persian literary-master: Ferdosi (also spelled Ferdowsi). The Persian literary masterpiece, amassed over several decades in the tenth and eleventh centuries, is a collection of some 60,000 couplets full of Persian Miniatures created to illustrate scenes from the Persian epic, and has now reemerged in the form of HYPERWERKS‘ highly-entertaining comic book  series: Rostam – Tales [...]