Jump to content

File:The assassination of Chosroës Parvez.jpg

Page contents not supported in other languages.
This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Original file (700 × 734 pixels, file size: 521 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Summary

Artist
Abdul-Samad - attributed by Stuart Cary Welch and others, but disputed by eg Barbara Brend
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Description
English: Sassanian king Chosroes Parvez has been deposed and placed in house arrest. Mihr-Hurmuzd has been sent to assassinate him. To save time, Chosroes asks his page to bring him prayer items. The naive youth does exactly as he is told, without fetching guards to save his master. Mihr-Hurmuzd waits until the king is done praying and leaps on him, planting a knife in his stomach. The face of the assassin has been left unfinished.
Date circa 1535
date QS:P571,+1535-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
References http://shahnama.caret.cam.ac.uk/new/jnama/card/ceillustration:-2082012290
Source/Photographer Scan from The Adventures of Hamza: Painting and Storytelling in Mughal India by John Seyller (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 2002)
Permission
(Reusing this file)
This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art. The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason:
Public domain

This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 70 years or fewer.


You must also include a United States public domain tag to indicate why this work is in the public domain in the United States.
This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights.
The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain".
This photographic reproduction is therefore also considered to be in the public domain in the United States. In other jurisdictions, re-use of this content may be restricted; see Reuse of PD-Art photographs for details.
{{PD-Art}} template without license parameter: please specify why the underlying work is public domain in both the source country and the United States
(Usage: {{PD-Art|1=|deathyear=''year of author's death''|country=''source country''}}, where parameter 1= can be PD-old-auto, PD-old-auto-expired, PD-old-auto-1996, PD-old-100 or similar. See Commons:Multi-license copyright tags for more information.)
Other versions

Captions

The assassination of Khosrau II in a manuscript of the Shahnameh of Shah Tahmasp made by Abd al-Samad in 1535

Items portrayed in this file

depicts

image/jpeg

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current21:56, 30 September 2007Thumbnail for version as of 21:56, 30 September 2007700 × 734 (521 KB)Ranveig{{Information |Description={{en|Sassanian king Chosroes Parvez has been deposed and placed in house arrest. Mihr-Hurmuzd has been sent to assassinate him. To save time, Chosroes asks his page to bring him prayer items. The naive youth does exactly as he i

Global file usage

The following other wikis use this file:

View more global usage of this file.

Metadata