Al-Wasiti, Yahya Ibn Mahmud
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Persian School, 13th century, male.
Active at the beginning of the 13th century.
Born probably, in Wasit.
Painter.
Yahya ibn Mahmud al-Wasiti was a painter and calligrapher. He provided illustrations for a manuscript of al-Hariri’s Assemblies ( Maqamat) dated 1237 and now in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. The stylistic discrepancies between the different miniatures that appear in this manuscript make it difficult to discern the originality of al-Wasiti....
