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Mosul miniature: “Physician Andromachus Watching Labourers”
“Physician Andromachus Watching Labourers,” Mosul miniature from Kitāb al-diryāq (“Book of Antidotes”), 1199; in the National Library, Paris (MS Arabe 2964, fol. 22).
Mosul school
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- Date:
- c. 1175 - c. 1225
Mosul school, in painting, a style of miniature painting that developed in northern Iraq in the late 12th to early 13th century under the patronage of the Zangid dynasty (1127–1222). In technique and style the Mosul school was similar to the painting of the Seljuq Turks, who controlled Iran at that time, but the Mosul artists emphasized subject matter and degree of detail rather than the representation of three-dimensional space. Most of the Mosul iconography was Seljuq—for example, the use of figures seated cross-legged in a frontal position. Certain symbolic elements, such as the crescent and serpents, derived, however, from ...(100 of 242 words)