Muhammad Zaman
Mohammad Paolo Zaman Kermani known as Mohammad Zaman (fl. 1680 – c. 1700), a famous Safavid calligrapher and painter.
Life
He was a native of Kerman, Persia. He received his education in Tabriz. He was sent to Rome under the reign of Shah Abbas II. He returned to Persia as a Catholic Christian with the name Paolo.[1] Because of his conversion to Roman Catholicism he was obliged to escape from Persia to India where he obtained the protection of the Moghul dynasty.
Mohammad Zaman was influenced by Italian painting techniques. However, as Ivanov suggests, Mohammad Zaman studied under a European artist in Isfahan, Persia, and the report of his being sent by Shah Abbas II to study in Italy, where he adopted Roman Catholic Christianity, is no more than a colourful legend.[2]
It is reported[by whom?] that Manucci the famous traveller made the acquaintance of Mohammad Zaman at the court of Aurangzib.
References
- ^ Lewis, Bernard (October 17, 2001). The Muslim Discovery of Europe. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 9780393245578 – via Google Books.
- ^ History of Civilizations of Central Asia: Development in contrast : from the sixteenth to the mid-nineteenth by Chahryar Adle, Irfan Habib
Sources
- Habibi, Negar (2021). "Farangi-Sazi". In Yarshater, Ehsan (ed.). Encyclopædia Iranica, Online Edition. Encyclopædia Iranica Foundation.
- Landau, Amy S. (2011). "From Poet to Painter: Allegory and Metaphor in a Seventeenth-Century Persian Painting by Muhammad Zaman, Master of Farangī-Sāzī". Muqarnas Online. 28 (1): 101–131. doi:10.1163/22118993-90000175.
- Melville, Charles, ed. (2021). Safavid Persia in the Age of Empires: The Idea of Iran Vol. 10. I.B. Tauris. ISBN 978-0755633777.
External links
Media related to Muhammad Zaman at Wikimedia Commons
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