The High Museum of Art’s latest exhibition “Bestowing Beauty: Masterpieces from Persian Lands” features nearly 100 different works highlighting the vast artist traditions of Iranian civilization spanning from the sixth to the 19th centuries.
The works come from the Hossein Afshar Collection, one of the world’s largest private collections of Persian art.
The featured art includes a wide range of different mediums, including textiles, carpets, manuscripts, paintings, metalwork and ceramics.
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