The Life of Mohammad Paolo Zaman, the Persian Painter of the XVIIth Century
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3960116 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nicholas N Martinovitch (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1925 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Pages | 106 |
| Publication date | 1925-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the American Oriental Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0279 • E-ISSN: 2169-2289 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/593479 |
| OpenAlex | W2322523492 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
DR. FREDERICK MARTIN in his work The miniature painting and painters in Persia, India, and Turkey (London, 1912), anent the biography of Mohammad Zaman, wrote that this painter was sent to Rome under Shah Abbas II, and returned to Persia as a Christian with the name of Paolo, but because of his Christianity was obliged to escape from Persia to India where he obtained the protection of the Mogul Dynasty. In Aurangzib's reign the famous traveller Manucci made the acquaintance of our painter at the court of this Shah (vol. I, p. 124). Unfortunately Dr. Martin has not indicated whence he gained this information. Nevertheless it is not difficult to find his source, thanks to the mentioning of the name of Manucci. On pages 16-18 of vol. II of Storia do Mogor or Mogul India, 1653-1708, by Niccolko M1anucci, Venetian, translated with introduction and notes by WILLIAM IRVINE (London, 1907), we find the same but more detailed information. Occasionally we have chanced to find an unknown Persian manuscript with the miniatures of Mohammad Zaman, some inscriptions on whieh give us very important information about his life. These new pieces of information combined with the details scattered in the technical literature show that the biography of our painter was very complicated. Cl. Huart in his book Les call1igraphes et les minraturistes de l'Orient Musulman (Paris, 1908, p. 255) called our painter Mohammed Zeman Kirmani and added that he received his education in Tabriz. The name Kirmani means that he was a native of Kirman, a town or province of Persia. From the above-mentioned work of Manucci-Irvine we can collect many pieces of useful information. Stanley Lane-Poole in his Rulers of India: Aurangzib, 1893 (p. 5), states that the memoirs of Manucci are full of errors, but only in the edition of Catrou (Histoire generate de 1'Empire du Mogol . . . . sur les memoires de 31. 3lanuchi . . . par le Pere Frangois Catrou 106
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| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |