Muhammad al-Khayyam - Persian drawing after Tazza Farnese [ca. 1400-1433]

Muhammad al-Khayyam -
Persian drawing after Tazza Farnese [about 1400-1433]
Berlin Staatsbibliothek, Diez-Album - Diez A fol-72

The camera relief on the front of the so-called "Tazza Farnese", which was probably made in Alexandria in the second century BC, served as a template for this fine brush drawing. It is unclear how the Persian artist (attribution lower right to the draftsman and calligrapher Muḥammad-i Ḫaiyām who worked in Herat under Bāisunġur (d. 1433)) copied the motif. Did he know the original or did he have a good copy or drawing based on the original? The cameo probably shows a Ptolemaic allegory on the fertility of the Nile Delta (Simon 1995, pp. 15-20). The Persian artist traced all the figures with great precision. Only three changes can be made out: firstly, the ears of corn in the right hand of the goddess (Isis-Demeter?) Lying on the sphinx have been reinterpreted in the lower part of the plow, which is held by the young man, identified as the agricultural hero Triptolemus; second, Triptolemus 'shaggy satyr hairstyle was turned into a topknot (Blanck 1964, p. 311) - as was the hair of the left male personification of the Etesian winds above - and thirdly, the knife in Triptolemus' left hand was left out.

Source:
digital.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/werkansicht/?PPN=PPN73...

Taken on: March 16, 2021

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