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Reza Abbasi
Reza Abbasi was a leading Persian painter and calligrapher active at the court of the Safavid ruler Shah Abbas I in Isfahan. He is celebrated for single-figure studies and graceful line drawings that influenced later Persian painting. Accounts of the Safavid Empire name him among the masters under whom Persian miniature painting achieved its mature form.
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