Rustam Kills The White Div Rug

He kills the white div folio 124 from a shah nama book of kings of firdausi persian about 934 1020 cleveland.

Rustam kills the white div rug.

He possesses great physical strength and is skilled in sorcery and necromancy he destroys the army of kay kavus by conjuring a dark storm of hail boulders and tree trunks using his magical skills. Rustam kills the white div folio from a shahnama book of kings author. Sam goes to fight mihrab. Spencer collection the new york public library.

Rustam standing with dagger armoured slays the white div white demon depicted with tail and bestial features. The artist was obviously drawing on a shiraz inspiration. Completing this last of seven trials rustam uses the white div s blood to cure the iranian king kay kavus of his blindness. Nearby is rustam s horse.

In this magnificent refined work of a painter of the safavid court in iran the warrior hero rustam completes his last of seven herculean labors that established his prowess as a matchless hero. He rustam s seventh course. Iskandar kills the abyssinian monster. Scene from the shahnameh.

In the persian epic of shahnameh div e sepid persian. Description on this folio from walters manuscript w 602 rustam kills the white div the seventh feat. Attributed to northwestern iran or baghdad. Abu l qasim firdausi iranian 935 1020 date.

White demon is the chieftain of the divs demons of mazandaran he is a huge being. The mobads question hurmuzd and receive answers. He kills the white dîv the new york public library digital collections. The legendary hero rustam identified by his tiger skin clothing kills the savage chief of the demons the white div in an immense cave as other demons watch from above.

Ink opaque watercolor silver and gold on paper. However the roots of the narrative date much earlier to the seventh century. Rustam kills the white div devil the great sages mourn the death of iskandar. While the mughal prvenance is obvious i have to note the cave the blue bacground rocks and the gold sky with the two tone cloud swirls.

دیو سپید lit. Illustrated leaf from a manuscript of firdausi s shahnama mughal late 16th century note. Rustam slaying the white div outside a cave. In the shahnameh rostam and his.