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Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Fund New Gallery for Persian Art at Metropolitan Museum

Released: July 21, 2009

Shahnama (The Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp, ca. 1525–30; Safavid period (1501-1722) Abu'l Qasim Firdausi, Author; Qasim, son of 'Ali, Artist (attributed to); Aqa Mirak, (supervised by) Made in Tabriz, Iran. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Arthur A. Houghton Jr., 1970 (1970.301

The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced today that a new gallery dedicated to Safavid and Later Persian Art (1500-1924) has been designated the Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Gallery. It is one of a suite of exhibition spaces—the Galleries for the Arts of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia—that are overseen by the Museum's Department of Islamic Art and are scheduled to open in 2011. In addition to funding the gallery naming, Mr. and Mrs. Mossavar-Rahmani's ...

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