A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c20.s1.87

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To this day the painters and illuminators of Isfahan, the earlier, and Teheran, the later, capital of Persia, cherish as their ideal the ambition to ‘paint like Raphael’, and pride themselves on their descent from certain of the students sent long ago to Rome who survived to return to the home of their fathers.¹