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AQA RIZA IN HIS great work A 'lam Arai Abbasi, Iskandar Munshi, the court historian of Shah Abbas (1581-1628), furnishes us with chapters on Calligraphists, Miniaturists, and Musicians of his time.
(View the image of this page) which clearly shows that this grand edifice was erected under the super• vision of Aqa Riza Musawwar (painter), by the orders of Jahangir, while the inscriptions of the monument were inscribed by the great calligraphist Abdulla A!ushkin Qalmn.
g. , plate No. 17, and later on published _ by other writers on Persian Art. This picture has calligraphic specimens both on the top and bottom in fine Nasto'liq style from the pen of Mir Ali al-Katib, who died in 937 A.
RIZA-1-ABBASI RIZA-I-ABBASI the painter, whose style of signing and dating his work is familiar to all, receives the following notice from Sir Thomas Arnold: "From the sixteenth century onwards the practice of signing pictures became more common, though it may with some· assurance be asserted that the majority of Persian paintings, even after that period, lack sig• natures of the artists.
the great Astronomer," There exist three portraits of Riza-i-Abbasi the painter by his pupil Mu'in Musawwar, made on different occasions and at the request of different persons, as we learn from the inscriptions which they bear; thev are all dated between 1084-1087 A.
3 It bears the following inscription by Riza-i-Abbasi: (View the image of this page) 1.
' (j) Muhammad Riza Imami of Isfahan (specimen of work dated 1070 A.