1540

Showing 2 works across all media from 1540

Decorative arts · Safavid

The Ardabil Carpet

Maqsud of Kashan

1540 · Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Over ten meters long and tied from perhaps twenty-six million knots, woven for a shrine and inscribed with a longing line of Hafiz.

★ 8.2

Religious painting · Mannerism

Madonna with the Long Neck

Parmigianino

1540 · Uffizi Gallery, Florence

Every proportion is wrong on purpose, and a single outsized column rises behind for no reason. Parmigianino died before finishing it.

★ 7.8