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quite well when it es to painting; which is their skill or their art; but they
don’t prehend that the old masters made these pictures out of the
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memories of Allah Himself。” Ulu? Bey asked how a child could know such
things。 “The child doesn’t know;” said the old miniaturist。 “But I; an elderly
and blind miniaturist; know that Allah created this worldly realm the way an
intelligent seven…year…old boy would want to see it; what’s more; Allah created
this earthly realm so that; above all; it might be seen。 Afterward; He provided
us with words so we might share and discuss with one another what we’ve
seen。 We mistakenly assumed that these stories arose out of words and that
illustrations were painted in service of these stories。 Quite to the contrary;
painting is the act of seeking out Allah’s memories and seeing the world as He
sees the world。”
DJIM
Two hundred fifty years ago; Arab miniaturists were in the custom of staring
at the western horizon at daybreak to alleviate the understandable and eternal
anxieties about going blind shared by all miniaturists; likewise; a century later
in Shiraz; many illustrators would eat walnuts mashed with rose petals on an
empty stomach in the mornings。 Again; in the same era; the elder miniaturists
of Isfahan who believed sunlight was responsible for the blindness to which
they succumbed one by one; as if to the plague; would work in a half…dark
corner of the room; and most often by candlelight; to prevent direct sunlight
from striking their worktables。 At day’s end; in the workshops of
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