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Title: Timur, conquest of a city in Khwarezm / Persian miniature 1486
Caption: Timur, (Timur Lenk, Timur-i-Long, Tamerlan); Asian conqueror of Turco-Mongol descent; founder of the Timurid dynasty in Persia and Transoxiana; Kesh (Chagatai Khanate) 8.4.1336 - Otrar near Shymkent 19.1.1405. Campaigns of Timur in Khwarezm, 1372 ff.: Conquest of a city. Detail. Persian miniature, 1486. Illustration of the Zafarnama (Book of Victory / History of Timur) by the Persian historian Sharaf ad-Din Ali Yazdi (died 1454). Gouache on paper. Ms. 1964. Istanbul, Museum of Turkish Art.
Artwork: ZAFAR-NAME
Technique/material: MINIATURE (PAINTING)
Museum: Istanbul, Museum of Turkish Art
Credit: Album / Roland and Sabrina Michaud / akg-images
Image size: 3288 × 4961 px | 46.7 MB
Print size: 27.8 × 42.0 cm | 1294.5 × 1953.1 in (300 dpi)