Romance and Reason

Editors: Roberta Casagrande-Kim, Samuel Thrope, Raquel Ukeles
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published Date: March 6, 2018
ISBN: 978-0691181844
Pages: 144 pages
Dimensions: 9 x 0.6 x 11 in. Use Promo Code "25W" at Checkout for 25% off this item from November 25 to December 25, 2022

Shahnamah
Iskandar Encounters the Angel Israfil (detail)
Author: Abu al-Qasim Firdausi (940–1019 or 1025)
Copyist: Muhammad al-Katib al-Qiwam Shirazi
Language: Persian
Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
folio: H. 45.2 cm; W. 30.2 cm. Probably Turkey, 1562–1583
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Purchase—Smithsonian Unrestricted Trust Funds, Smithsonian Collections Acquisition Program, and Dr. Arthur M. Sackler: S1986.256

Alexander the Great (356–323 BCE).
Marble,
H. 8.9 cm; W. 5.1 cm; D. 3.8 cm.
Africa (?), 100 BCE–100 CE.
Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund: 54.162.
Photo: Brooklyn Museum, by Gavin Ashworth.