Iconography

MAGIC AND SCIENCE

Alchemy / Miscellaneous

Further details

Hermes represented as an alchemist in his temple

Artist or creator

Persian

Date

1339 (circa) (dated 740 A.H.)

Location

Istanbul, Topkapi Sarayi Müzesi, Ahmet III 2075

Book, text or document (source of image)

Muhammed ibn Umail al-Tamimi. al-Ma' al-Waraqi wa'l-Ard al-Najmiya ( The Silvery Water and the Starry Earth). Bagdad. 1339. Folio: 2r.

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

B. Farès 'Figures magiques' in Aus der Welt der islamischen Kunst: Festschrift für Ernst Kühnel, zum 75. Geburstag am 26.10.1957, Berlin, 1959, pp. 156-60; E. Grube, Persian Painting in the Fourteenth Century: A Research Report, Naples,1978, pp. 18-19; P.Berlekamp, 'Painting a Persuasion: A Visual Defense of Alchemy in an Islamic Manuscript of the Mongol Period'. Muqarnas XX (2003), pp. 35-60

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