The art of Persian miniature emerged as a means of illustrating books, usually accompanying works of poetry. Persian miniatures evolved in Iran during the rule of the Turkic Seljuk dynasty (1038–1157 CE). Miniatures in this period were...

A Persian miniature is a small painting, whether a book illustration or a separate work of art intended to be kept in an album of such works. The techniques are broadly comparable to the Western and Byzantine traditions of miniatures in illuminated...

FACE TIME DAVID HAJDU ON MARJANE SATRAPI The eons-old culture of the place we now call Iran first inspired comic-book artists as early as 1949, when the late Disneystudio veteran Carl Barks wrote and illustrated a twenty-four-page adventure fantasy titled "In Ancient...

Magnifying glasses are provided at the entrance to "Art of the Persian Courts" at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. So tiny are the details in the miniatures displayed that they seem to have been painted not with bushy brushes but with single hairs. ...