Discuss the style and function of the illuminated manuscripts produced by the Persians and provide an example
What will be an ideal response?
Essay responses should include these points:
Books were elaborately decorated with bright colors, ink, and gold leaf.
Books were made for royal patrons as a collaboration between calligraphers and painters.
Extraordinary detail appears in many of the illustrations of these manuscripts.
The books were religious or secular: scientific treatises, manuals, fiction, and poetry.
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encyclopedias and were considered important Enlightenment philosophers.
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