Omar Khayyam. by Edmund Dulac. Edmund Dulac (born Edmond Dulac 1882-1953), was a book illustrator prominent during the so called "Golden Age of Illustration" (the first quarter or so of the twentieth century). Born in Toulouse, France, he began his career by studying law at the University of Toulouse, but also followed classes in the Ecole des Beaux Arts, switching full time to art after he became bored with law, and also having won prizes at the Ecole des Beaux Arts. He spent a very brief period at the Académie Julien in Paris in 1904 before moving to London. Omar Khayyam was born May 18, 1048, Neyshabur [also spelled Nishapur], Khorasan [now Iran] died December 4, 1131, Neyshabur. Arabic in full Ghiyath al-Din Abu al-Fath 'Umar ibn Ibrahim al-Nisaburi al-Khayyami Persian mathematician, astronomer, and poet, renowned in his own country and time for his scientific achievements but chiefly known to English-speaking readers through the translation of a collection of his roba'iyat (quatrains) in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1859) from Farsi into English by the English writer Edward J. Fitzgerald. ©Topham.

Edmund Dulac (1882-1953)

Omar Khayyam. by Edmund Dulac. Edmund Dulac (born Edmond Dulac 1882-1953), was a book illustrator prominent during the so called "Golden Age of Illustration" (the first quarter or so of the twentieth century). Born in Toulouse, France, he began his career by studying law at the University of Toulouse, but also followed classes in the Ecole des Beaux Arts, switching full time to art after he became bored with law, and also having won prizes at the Ecole des Beaux Arts. He spent a very brief period at the Académie Julien in Paris in 1904 before moving to London. Omar Khayyam was born May 18, 1048, Neyshabur [also spelled Nishapur], Khorasan [now Iran] died December 4, 1131, Neyshabur. Arabic in full Ghiyath al-Din Abu al-Fath 'Umar ibn Ibrahim al-Nisaburi al-Khayyami Persian mathematician, astronomer, and poet, renowned in his own country and time for his scientific achievements but chiefly known to English-speaking readers through the translation of a collection of his roba'iyat (quatrains) in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1859) from Farsi into English by the English writer Edward J. Fitzgerald. ©Topham

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