Muḥammadī

Persian painter
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Also known as: Mīrzā ʿAlī
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Byname of:
Mīrzā ʿAlī
Flourished:
16th century, Ṣafavid Iran
Flourished:
c.1501 - c.1600
Movement / Style:
Islamic arts

Muḥammadī (flourished 16th century, Ṣafavid Iran) was one of the leading court painters during the time (1548–97) that the Ṣafavid capital was Qazvīn. A native of western Iran, he was a son of the painter Sulṭān Muḥammad, who was one of his teachers. A master of line, Muḥammadī (so called after his great father) began to paint while still young and while Tabrīz was still the capital. The surviving examples of his work were executed between the 1530s and the 1580s, an unusually long period of activity. He worked on some of the greatest Ṣafavid manuscripts, including Ṭahmāsp I’s Shāh-nāmeh ...(100 of 152 words)