the period of 1465-153
Persian illustrator. The most famous master of Persian painting, he is important both for the paintings he executed and for the wider influence of the style associated with his name. Evidently orphaned at a young age, Bihzad is said to have been raised and trained by MIRAK, a painter and calligrapher employed in Herat by Husayn Bayqara. Related Paintings of Bihzad :. | His Ministers plead with the Sasanian king Hurmuzd to forgive his son Khusro | Sikanar overcomes the Hosts of Dara | The saintly Bishr fishes up the corpse of the blaspheming Malikha from the magic well which is the fount fo life | the theophany through Layli sitting framed within the prayer niche | Tamerlane leading the assault of the castle of the knights of the Hospitallers of Saint john at Smyrna | Related Artists:
Lycett, Joseph1774 - 1825
vav der kooiRobert Swain Gifford(December 23, 1840 - January 13, 1905) was an American landscape painter. He was influenced by the Barbizon school.
Much of his work focuses on the landscapes of New England, where he was born. He, along with Victorian contemporaries from the White Mountain and Hudson River Schools, helped immortalize the majestic cliffs of Grand Manan in the Bay of Fundy. His painting from the island, "Pettes Cove," is illustrative of his masterful marine work.
In the 1870s, he undertook several journeys to Europe and the Middle East and painted some subjects from those regions. In 1899, he was an artist on the famous Harriman Alaska Expedition.
Some of his works hang in the most prominent galleries in the USA, including the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC. He was a member of the Society of American Artists.
