The story on your wall
The city that never sleeps — in 1540.
Rooftop sleepers on their summer beds. A white cat prowling the terraces. A lamplit gathering behind blue tilework, the music still playing. Mir Sayyid Ali packed an entire city's night into one folio.
Painted in Tabriz around fifteen forty, by an artist so gifted he was later summoned to help found the Mughal court atelier itself.
One of the earliest surviving paintings of ordinary city life at night — anywhere.
📜 Mir Sayyid Ali, ca. 1540 · Tabriz · restored from museum archives
