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f 143v Shahnameh of Shah Tahmasb, Attributed to Abdol Aziz.
The force of this exquisite painting moves like a perfectly controlled storm, where motion and tension are woven into every line and colour. The sheer speed of the riders surges through the scene—caught in the wind-torn folds of their flying garments, and echoed in the embroidered animals on Sohrab’s saddlecloth, which leap and gallop in rhythm with his horse.
The land itself seems to tremble beneath the thunder of hooves. Roots are torn from the earth, clinging to crashing rocks, and you can feel the violence of the moment in the heavy thud of the fallen spear, as flowers spin and flail wildly through the air, lashed by its force.
At the heart of the struggle, Gordafarid twists in desperate resistance—one hand reaching to seize Sohrab’s lasso, the other raised to slice it free. Her battle is mirrored by the flowering tree that wrenches and strains as it is trapped in the crushing grip of surrounding rocks and Nature and warrior alike are locked in the same breathless moment of resistance.