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Located in a leafy Rome neighborhood, the Iranian embassy to the Holy See features an entryway lined with a large photograph of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, and framed, centuries-old correspondence between popes and Persian monarchs, including a Nov. 16, 1561, letter in Latin from Pope Pius V to Shah Tahmasp I. The current No. 2 official at the embassy, Vice-Ambassador Ahmad Fahima, said that despite some concern last year about the Pope's provocative speech about Islam in Regensburg, Germany, "relations between Iran and the Holy See are very good." Last April's release of 15 British sailors held...
...curatorial hand of Art Historian Stuart Gary Welch, several works have been brought together. The centerpiece is the Houghton Shahnama, or Book of Kings, in itself a miniature museum of the work of the greatest court artists of Tabriz, those who were assembled under the rule of Shah Tahmasp. There are other major manuscripts too, including Nizami's Quintet (a cycle of five illustrated poems), along with a group of separate miniatures...
Four centuries ago, Persia's Shah Tahmasp looked on the sparkling waters of the Karun River on one side of the Zagros mountain range and at the parched and dusty land around Isfahan on the other side, and issued an imperial decree: let the waters of the Karun be brought to Isfahan so that Isfahan valley may bloom. Thousands of peasants chiseled into the mountainside to cut an aqueduct, but midway they hit a core of hard rock that dented even the Shah's will. Work stopped...
Carpets. Most famed Persian rug is "The Emperor's Hunting Carpet," woven in the 16th century reign of Tahmasp Shah who was to Persian art as was Louis XIV to French. A border string of clear gold cartouches separates the ruby field from the main border. Vines rise in colliding spirals of great blossoms, leaves, tendrils. Wild animals fight. Shah Abbas the Great presented it to Russia about 1600, Tsar Peter the Great to Habsburg Leopold...
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