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The Parrot Addresses Khujasta at the Beginning of the Seventh Night, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot) at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1560, gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and coll
The vizier dissuades the king of Bahilistan from executing the dervish who asks for his daughter’s hand in marriage, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Seventh Night at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1560, gum tempera, ink, and gold on
The dervish brings in as dowry an elephant laden with gold, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Seventh Night at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1560, gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper. Explore the work's context, creator attribution an
The dervish brings the King of Kings before the king of Bahilistan, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Seventh Night at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1560, gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper. Explore the work's context, creator attrib
The king of Bahilistan offers his daughter to the King of Kings, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Seventh Night at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1560, gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper. Explore the work's context, creator attributi
The Brahman gambler sees the daughter of the king of the jinns in a pit together with an old man and a cauldron of boiling oil, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot: Seventh Night) at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1560, gum tempera, ink, a
The daughter of the king of the jinns bows before the King of Kings who has just undergone the ordeal of passing through the boiling oil to emerge as a youth, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Seventh Night at the Cleveland Museum of Ar
The rejuvenated old man and the daughter of the king of the jinns take leave of the King of Kings, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Seventh Night at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1560, gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper. Explore the
The Parrot Addresses Khujasta at the Beginning of the Eighth Night, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot) at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1560, gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and colle
The astrologer predicts a calamity for the newly born prince in his thirteenth year, but one which he would be able to overcome, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1560, gum tempera, ink, a
The young prince is presented to the king, his father, by his teacher, but refuses to speak, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1560, gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper. Explore the work's
The king’s handmaiden takes the prince away to the harem, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1560, gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and c
The prince rejects the amorous advances of the king’s handmaiden, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1560, gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper. Explore the work's context, creator attributi
The prince being taken away for execution on the false complaint of the handmaiden, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1560, gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper. Explore the work's context,
Landscape with a lotus pool, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1560, gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.
A woman asks her lover to leave her house, brandishing his sword and feigning rage in order to deceive her husband who has just arrived, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1560, gum tempera
Landscape with a lotus pool, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot), Eighth Night at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1560, gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.
The prince, once reprieved, is returned to the palace of execution a second time on the plea of the king’s handmaiden, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1560, gum tempera, ink, and gold on
The deceitful wife assaults her erring husband, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1560, gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection
The handmaiden again appeals for justice and the prince is led to the place of execution for the third time, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1560, gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper. Ex
The lover’s son makes an elephant of the pastry dough carried by the unfaithful wife and puts it in her basket, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1560, gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper.
The unfaithful wife explaining away the presence of the dough elephant, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1560, gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper. Explore the work's context, creator att
The handmaiden appeals for justice and the prince is taken to the execution site for the fourth time, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1560, gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper. Explore t
The prince’s ordeal continues, he is ordered away to be executed for the fifth time, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1560, gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper. Explore the work's context
The deceitful wife returns to her terrace after caressing her lover, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1560, gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper. Explore the work's context, creator attrib
The deceitful wife ejects the procuress after blackening her face, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1560, gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper. Explore the work's context, creator attribut
The farmer, father of the son with the deceitful wife, steals away with her anklet while she is in bed with her lover, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1560, gum tempera, ink, and gold on
The deceitful wife persuades her husband to sleep in the same place where she had previously slept with her lover, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1560, gum tempera, ink, and gold on pap
The prince sent back to the place of execution for the sixth time, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1560, gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper. Explore the work's context, creator attribut
The merchant’s clerk replaces the sugar purchased by the philandering wife with gravel, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1560, gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper. Explore the work's cont
The husband berates his wife for purchasing gravel instead of sugar, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1560, gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper. Explore the work's context, creator attrib
The handmaiden again pleads for the death of the prince, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1560, gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and co
The young prince recounts his experiences to his father, the king, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1560, gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper. Explore the work's context, creator attribut
The young prince is crowned and the wicked handmaiden is executed, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1560, gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper. Explore the work's context, creator attribut
The parrot brings a fruit from the Tree of Life to the king of Syria, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Ninth Night at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1560, gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper. Explore the work's context, creator attrib
The old man eats of the fruit of the Tree of Life, but drops dead, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Ninth Night at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1560, gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper. Explore the work's context, creator attributi
The king plucks fruit from the Tree of Life with his own hands and feeds it to a lady, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Ninth Night at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1560, gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper. Explore the work's contex
The Parrot Addresses Khujasta at the Beginning of the Tenth Night, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot) at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1560, gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collec
The vizier’s son receives the magic wooden parrot from the wife of the merchant, who is drunk, and has a replica made by a carpenter, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Tenth Night at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1560, gum tempera, in
The merchant’s daughter meets the gardener, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Twelfth Night at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1560, gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection his