Persian miniature watercolour
نگارگری ایرانی negârgari irâni
Similar to European illuminated manuscripts the Persian miniature was the dominant influence on other Islamic miniature traditions of the Ottoman's in Turkey, and the Mughal's in the Indian sub-continent.
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Persian art under Islam had never completely forbidden the human figure, and in the miniature tradition the depiction of figures is considered a private form, kept in a book or album and only shown to those the owner chooses.