Description
No reasonably attentive observer could fail to notice, after looking at a representative series ofI fifteenth-cem tury Persian book paintings, that they obey certain conventions governing the depiction ofspace.‘ Many of these conventions, as it happens, differ significantly from those followed in Westerin painting, whether me dieval or post-medieval, and therefore require those that look at them, at least if they are Westerners, to make certain visual and mental readjustments.