Word: safavid
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...setting for his portrait of the Shah of Iran, TIME Cover Artist Bernard Safran copied a delicately elegant miniature by an unknown artist of the Safavid Dynasty period (1501-1734). Like most miniatures, this one was a book-size illustration for a Persian poet's verses. The lover is seen with his beloved in a pavilion in a flowering garden, where women attendants come with sweets and wine. A line of text runs around the edge: "My heart accepts the thorns of your garden...