cma-islamic-art: Persian Quatrains (Rubayi) and Calligraphic Exercises (recto Persian Verse (khamriy
cma-islamic-art:Persian Quatrains (Rubayi) and Calligraphic Exercises (recto Persian Verse (khamriyya) (verso), c. 1509-59, Cleveland Museum of Art: Islamic ArtThis page contains two quatrains—poems made up of four lines. The diagonally written text in the center of the page is a poem addressed to a ruler, expressing hope for his success and the downfall of his enemies. The second poem is split between the horizontal panels at the top and bottom of the page. This quatrain praises the beauty of the writer’s beloved, saying that “her moonlike face can steal away a hundred besotted hearts.” At the right are calligraphic exercises displaying letters of the alphabet and the virtuoso skill of the calligrapher Sultan Muhammad Khandan, who signed the page in the triangle at the lower left of the inner text block.Medium: ink, gold, and opaque watercolor on paperhttps://clevelandart.org/art/1983.1115 -- source link