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Pearls on a String: Artists, Patrons, and Poets at the Great Islamic Courts

Christ in Glory with Donor and Painter and Last Judgment, Armenian Gospel Book, 1655
by Ter Hayrapet (Armenian). Iran, Safavid period (1501–1722)
Opaque watercolors, ink, and gold on paper

Trustees of the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, Arm 578.15v–16r.
Photograph © The Trustees of the Chester Beatty Library, www.cbl.ie.