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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.

Illustration of a Rainbow in a 13th-Century Persian Manuscript by Zakariya Ibn Muhammad Qazwini

Artist

Date

13th century

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Walters W.659.41A


Underlying Rights

Public Domain Worldwide

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No Additional Rights


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