Siaush

Siaush (Siaush Beg Gurji) (died approx. 1616), Painter of miniatures in the Safavid Iran, Georgian by origin. Almost twenty his miniatures have survived (among them are extraordinary illustrations of the 1576-78 manuscript of Shahnameh by Ferdowsi), which are kept in the museums and private collections word over (in Iran, France, the USA, Russia, England, Switzerland, Turkey, Egypt, etc). In their works his contemporary Iranian and Turk authors provide interesting facts of Siaush’s life and work.