Mo'en Mosavver
{{Short description|Persian painter (1610s–1693)}}
File:Muin Mussavir Shakhname 1649.jpg by Ferdowsi, 1649. British Museum]]
Mo'en Mosavver or Mu‘in Musavvir ({{langx|fa|معین مصوّر}}, {{lit|Mo'en the painter}}; {{circa|1610s}}–1693) was a Persian miniaturist, one of the most significant in Safavid Iran. Not much is known about the personal life of Mo'en, except that he was born in ca. 1610-1615, became a pupil of Reza Abbasi, the leading painter of the day, and probably died in 1693. Over 300 miniatures and drawings attributed to him survive. He was a conservative painter who partly reversed the advanced style of his master, avoiding influences from Western painting. However, he painted a number of scenes of ordinary people, which are unusual in Persian painting.{{cite encyclopedia | article = Moʿin-e Moṣavver | last = Eng | first = Robert | authorlink = | url = http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/moin-e-mosavver | editor-last = | editor-first = | editor-link = | encyclopedia = Encyclopaedia Iranica | pages = | location = | publisher = | year = 2016 | isbn = }}
Muin was born in Isfahan and probably spent all of his life in this city. He enjoyed a long and successful career stretching from around 1630 to 1693.{{cite web|url=http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/1974.290.43|title=Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi - Mu'in Musavvir - 1974.290.43 |publisher=The Metropolitan Museum of Art}}
Career
He is notable as a master of illustration paintings especially figures, and compositions depicting banquet and battle scenes.{{cite book |last=Massumeh |first=Farhad |url=https://archnet.org/library/documents/one-document.jsp?document_id=4227 |title=Muqarnas Volume IX: An Annual on Islamic Art and Architecture |year=1992 |author-link=Massumeh Farhad}} He specialized in illuminated manuscripts and border decorations.
He illustrated animals and landscapes and other Aqa Mirak styles with significant virtuosity. He mostly used watercolor in his painting and remained faithful to the Isfahan school and Reza Abbasi. Other prominent painters influenced him, including Behzad, Mohammadi and Sadiqi Beg. He had several prominent pupils. Some of his manuscripts are signed by them. He was contemporary and friend of famous painters including Shafi' Abbasi.{{citation needed|date=November 2016}}
Gallery
File:Muin Mussavir archer.jpg|Archer, version of this painting by Reza Abbasi
File:Muin Mussavir Tiger.jpg
File:Muin Mussavir 1642.jpg
File:Muin Musavvir 1696.jpg
File:Mu'in. Portrait of Riza-i-Abbasi. 1673. Princeton University..jpg|Portrait of Reza Abbasi, 1673
File:The Battle between Shah Ismail and Abul-Khayr Khan.jpg|The battle between Shah Ismail and Shaybani Khan
File:Shah Ismail I Watches His Troops Defeat the Musha' sha' leader Sultan Fayyad. Persian manuscript, created c. 1688.jpg|Shah Ismail I ({{reign}}1501-1524) watches his troops defeat the Musha'sha leader Sultan Fayyad, created {{circa|1688}}
File:Khalili Collection Islamic Art laq-0001-top-side.jpg|Lacquer pen box, the only one known to have been painted by Muin{{Cite web|title=Pen Box|url=https://www.khalilicollections.org/collections/islamic-art/khalili-collection-islamic-art-pen-box-laq1/|access-date=2021-04-12|website=Khalili Collections|language=en-US}}
File:Khalili Collection Islamic Art mss 1000.2a.jpg|Woman with Indian headdress, from an exemplar of the Shahnameh, 1648{{Cite web|title=Youth in European Dress and Young Woman with Indian Headdress, from a Shahnamah|url=https://www.khalilicollections.org/collections/islamic-art/khalili-collection-islamic-art-youth-in-european-dress-and-young-woman-with-indian-headdress-from-a-shahnamah-mss1000/|access-date=2021-08-11|website=Khalili Collections|language=en-US}}
References
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Category:Iranian miniature painters