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Contrary to what is assumed; making drawings of horses by looking at actual

horses wasn’t a discovery of European masters。 The original idea belonged to

the  great  master  Jemalettin  of  Kazvin。  After  Tall  Hasan;  the  Khan  of  the

Whitesheep; conquered Kazvin; the old master Jemalettin was not content to

simply join the book…arts workshop of the victorious khan; instead he headed

out on campaign with him; claiming that he wanted to embellish the khan’s

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History with scenes of war he’d witnessed himself。 So this great master; who

for  sixty…two  years  had  made  pictures  of  horses;  cavalry  charges  and  battles

without ever having seen a battle; went to war for the first time。 But before he

could even see the thunderous and violent clash of sweating horses; he lost his

hands and his eyesight to enemy cannon…fire。 The old master; like all genuine

virtuosos;  had  in  any  case  been  awaiting  blindness  as  though  it  were  Allah’s

blessing; and neither did he treat the loss of his hands as a great deficiency。 He

maintained that the memory of a miniaturist was located not in the hand; as

some insisted; but in the intellect and the heart; and furthermore; now that he

was blind; he declared that he could see the true pictures; scenery and essential

and  flawless  horses  that  Allah  manded  be  seen。  To  share  these  wonders

with  lovers  of  art;  he  hired  a  tall;  pale…skinned;  pink…plected;  green…eyed

calligrapher’s  apprentice  to  whom  he  dictated  exactly  how  to  draw  the

marvelous  horses  that  appeared  to  him  in  God’s  divine  darkness—as  he

would’ve drawn them had he been able to hold a brush in his hands。 After the

master’s death; his account of how to draw 303 horses beginning from the left

foreleg  was  collected  by  the  handsome  calligrapher’s  apprentice  into  three

volumes respectively entitled The Depiction of Horses; The Flow of Horses and The

Love of Horses; which were quite widely liked and sought after for a time in the

regions where the Whitesheep ruled。 Though they appeared in a variety of new

editions  and  copies;  were  memorized  by  illustrators;  apprentices  and  their

students  and  were  used  as  practice  books;  after  Tall  Hasan’s  Whitesheep

nation was obliterated and the Herat style of illustration overtook all of Persia;

Jemalettin  and  his  manuscripts  were  forgotten。  Doubtless;  the  logic  behind

Kemalettin R?za of Herat’s violent criticism of these three volumes in his book

The Blindman’s Horses; and his conclusion that they ought to be burned; had

figured in this turn of events。 Kemalettin R?za claimed that none of the horses

described  by  Jemalettin  of  Kazvin  in  his  three  volumes  could  be  a  horse  of

God’s vision—because none of them were “immaculate;” since the old master

had  described  them  after  he’d  witnessed  an  actual  battle  scene;  no  matter

how  briefly。  Since  the  treasures  of  Tall  Hasan  of  the  Whitesheep  had  been

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