 Illustration from Rashid al-Din's 'Universal History" copied at Tabriz in 1306 showing the Prophet Jeremiah |
Many of the miniatures painted after 1258 are handled in a linear style clearly inspired by Chinese painting utilizing light, feathery brush-strokes colored with delicate tints, rather than the strong contrasting colors of earlier Persian works. Also appearing for the first time were knobby tree trunks with branches like those of a willow pattern plate and an attempt to render the background in three-dimensions by multiplying the number of planes.
 Nushirwan rewards the young Buzurjmihr. Miniature from a manuscript of the Shah Nameh of Firdausi. Persian (Tabriz), about 1340 |
At first the old Mesopotamian style illustrations and the new Chinese style miniatures appeared side by side in the same texts. But eventually the blend became so complete, that a new style emerged. It was this blend that constituted the basis of Persian miniature painting from the mid-fourteenth century onwards, and had it not taken place, the art would not have developed in the way that it did.
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