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第14部分(第4页)

“It  is  indeed  important  that  a  painting;  through  its  beauty;  summon  us

toward life’s abundance; toward passion; toward respect for the colors of

the realm which God created; and toward reflection and faith。 The identity of

the miniaturist is not important。”

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Was Nuri the Miniaturist; who was much more subtle in thought than I’d

assumed; being reserved because he understood that my Enishte sent me here

to investigate; or was he merely parroting Head Illuminator Master Osman?

“Is Elegant the one responsible for all this gilding work?” I asked。 “Who’s

doing the gilding now; in his stead?”

The shouts and screams of children could now be heard through the open

door  that  faced  the  inner  courtyard。  Below;  one  of  the  division  heads  had

started  administering  the  bastinado  to  apprentices  who’d  most  likely  been

caught with red ink powder in their pockets or gold leaf hidden away in a fold

of  paper;  probably  the  two  whom  I’d  seen  trembling  as  they  waited  in  the

cold。 Young painters; seizing an opportunity to mock them; ran to the door to

watch。

“By the time the apprentices paint the ground of the Hippodrome here  a

rose  color;  finishing  it  off  as  our  Master  Osman  has  dictated;”  said  Nuri

Effendi  cautiously;  “our  brother  Elegant  Effendi;  God  willing;  will  have

returned from wherever he’s gone and will plete the gilding on these two

pages。  Our  master;  Osman  the  Miniaturist;  wanted  Elegant  Effendi  to  color

the dirt floor of the Hippodrome differently in each scene。 Rose pink; Indian

green; saffron yellow or the color of goose shit。 Whosoever beholds the picture

will  realize  in  the  first  rendering  this  is  a  dirt  square  and  should  be  earth…

colored; but in the second and third pictures; he’ll want other colors to keep

himself amused。 Embellishing ought to bring merriment to the page。”

I noticed some pictures on a sheet of paper that an assistant left in a corner。

He was working on a single…leaf picture for a Book of Victories; the depiction of

a naval fleet heading off to battle; but it was obvious that the screams of his

friends whose soles were being severely beaten; provoked the illustrator to run

off and watch。 The fleet he made by repeatedly tracing identical ships with a

block pattern didn’t even seem to float in the sea; yet; this artificiality; the lack

of  wind  in  the  sails;  had  less  to  do  with  the  block  pattern  than  the  young

painter’s  lack  of  skill。  I  saw  with  sorrow  that  the  pattern  had  been  cut

violently out of an old book which I couldn’t identify; perhaps a colla

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