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Rustam Slays the White Div
Rustam Slays the White Div
Shah Tahmasp Shahnameh · Safavid Tabriz · 1530s
A leaf from Shah Tahmasp's Shahnameh: Rustam reaching into the cave to split the White Demon with a dagger. This manuscript was the grandest Persian painting ever made; Tahmasp later gave it to Sultan Selim II.