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Painting of a seated Umayyad caliph (Al-walid II) from the audience hall of his desert palace in Jorden. the opposite wall contain another (highly damaged) painting that depict six standing kings including: the emperors of Persia, Rome, Ethiopia and the king of the Visigoths. c. 740 AD [2000×1324]

September 14, 2024

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2nick101 on September 14, 2024 9:28 pm

opposite painting from this one : [painting of the six kings](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Painting_of_the_Six_Kings)

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Painting of a seated Umayyad caliph (Al-walid II) from the audience hall of his desert palace in Jorden. the opposite wall contain another (highly damaged) painting that depict six standing kings including: the emperors of Persia, Rome, Ethiopia and the king of the Visigoths. c. 740 AD [2000×1324]

ID please? [3024×4032]

This drawing, by the Ottoman painter Şahkulu, of a dragon entangled in swirling foliage under attack from a lion above while assaulting a phoenix is certainly the greatest masterpiece of the saz style. Now housed at the Cleveland Museum of Art [6668×2939]

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