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The Art of the Shahnameh

1,193 woodcut panels illustrate the poem from the Creation to the fall of the Sasanians, drawn from 306 identity sheets and 36 banners. Each panel has its own page, with the couplets it illustrates.

Panels, book by book

A0The Prelude9 panelsA1The First Kings: Kioumars3 panelsA2The First Kings: Hushang3 panelsA3The First Kings: Tahmuras2 panelsA4The First Kings: Jamshid and the Rise of Zahhak7 panelsA5Zahhak’s Tyranny and the Uprising of Kaveh12 panelsA6The First Kings: Fereydoon33 panelsA7The First Kings: Manuchehr7 panelsA8The Story of Zal and Rudabeh29 panelsA9The Birth and Early Feats of Rostam; Manuchehr’s Closing Counsel10 panelsB1The Crisis after Manuchehr17 panelsB2Garshasp and the Transition to Kayanian Kingship7 panelsB3Kay Qobad5 panelsB4The War with Mazandaran7 panelsB5The Seven Labors of Rostam17 panelsB6The Folly of Kay Kavus12 panelsB7The Fight of the Seven Warriors6 panelsB8The Tragedy of Rostam & Sohrab34 panelsB9The Story of Siavash70 panelsB10Vengeance for Siavash and the Retrieval of Kay Khosrow43 panelsB11Kay Khosrow’s Kingship9 panelsB12Forood and the Snowstorm Campaign32 panelsB13Mount Hamavan and the Kamus Campaign38 panelsB14The Great Battle with the Khan of Chin35 panelsC1Rostam and the Div Akvan7 panelsC2The Tale of Bijan and Manijeh33 panelsC3The Battle of the Twelve Rukhs60 panelsC4The Final Afrasiab Wars and the Disappearance of Kay Khosrow77 panelsC5Lohrasp24 panelsC6Goshtasb, Zardosht, and the War with Arjasp35 panelsC7Esfandiyar’s Seven Stages and the Ruyin Dezh22 panelsC8The Tragedy of Rostam and Esfandiyar35 panelsC9Rostam and Shaghad11 panelsD1The Reign of Bahman, Son of Esfandiyar5 panelsD2Homahyi and the Founding of Darab’s Line8 panelsD3Darab4 panelsD4Dara and Iskandar13 panelsD5The Iskandar Cycle46 panelsD6The Ashkanian Dynasty21 panelsD7The Early Sasanians16 panelsD8The Shapur Zul-Aktaf Cycle and Later Early Sasanian Reigns17 panelsD9Yazdegard I and the Rise of Bahram Goor15 panelsD10The Bahram Goor Cycle: Justice, Foreign Adventures, and End of a Reign49 panelsD11Short Reigns and a Crisis with Khoshnavaz10 panelsD12Qobad and the Mazdakite Revolution10 panelsD13Anooshirvan and the Road to the End-time30 panelsE1The Story of Mahbud and Other Matters18 panelsE2Chess, Wisdom, and the Kalila and Dimna12 panelsE3Bozorgmehr’s Fall and Restoration6 panelsE4Anooshirvan’s Last Years9 panelsE5Hormizd, Son of Anooshirvan41 panelsE6Khosrow Parviz63 panelsE7The Story of Khosrow Parviz and Shirin15 panelsE8Shiruyeh’s Coup and the End of the Great Reign9 panelsE9The Years of Chaos7 panelsE10Yazdegard17 panelsE11The Epilogue1 panel

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Identity sheets306 sheets, character by characterBanners36 banners of kings and PahlevansCharactersEvery character’s page, with their picturesMapsThe Shahnameh in Maps

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