Illustration of a rainbow in a 13th-century Persian manuscript by Zakariya ibn Muhammad Qazwini.
Featured on PDR in the collection Rainbows in Art
Depictions spanning more than 800 years – in chronological order – of that most enigmatic of weather phenomena, the rainbow: from Noah's sign and the Book of Revelation, through to 18th-century optics, the epic landscapes of Romanticism, and modernist abstraction.























