In the history of art, Kamāl ud-Dīn Behzād is one of the names that keeps being returned to.
The record lists Kamāl ud-Dīn Behzād as Persian artist (1450–1535).
Kamāl ud-Dīn Behzād was born at Herat in 1450.
This was the period in which the artist became an individual with a signature, a reputation and a price.
He worked as painter, illuminator and miniaturist.
Looking is a skill, and the artists who last are those who taught their audience how to do it.
Kamāl ud-Dīn Behzād died in 1535, aged 85. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
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