The miniature said that all art should be a mirror turning to God, and show its reflection in the trace of a look by God on man. Persian painting does nothing of the divine essence, no art and no philosophy could not, under penalty of fraud. She noted, however, the presence of a spiritual paradise, like the moon reflects the sun and paradise, if not the last reality, is nevertheless a step in a pilgrimage across the transcendence .

The principle of the thumbnail is a kind of paradise images . It opens a place not on land, where all the beauties at the root of our harmonies appear as forms suprasensibles much more lively and pure as concrete phenomena, and more aware that true and dreams.

This world is not unreal, although it is not reachable by reason and the senses. His reality is a kind of posthumous paradise and Adam nursery, the spiritual cosmos of the first humanity. This heavenly land, which is not invisible as the world angelic, but not material as our earth human, that symbolizes the Persian painting.

The Persian painting wishes reflect a spiritual intelligence beyond reason, and that nothing can express, if not poetic or visual symbols . By showing a light invisible and elusive as defined by reason, it suggests the content of a contemplative vision that can not belong to rationalists or worldly, but only to spiritual.

The brightness of this pictorial art, reveals both a supernatural light and the light of the soul that contemplates. In this miniature joined the function of sacred art .

"God is the light of heaven and earth" and is "light upon light" (Qur'an XXIV, 35). These are to be taken literally and symbolically: light is both invisible aspect that takes God in the soul and it is also the symbol of Reality in itself, which surpasses all brightness and any conception of human light. But the Light of God is like Essence, it does not differentiate by shadows, but by variations in intensity or radiation. The unity of the Divine Light is everywhere the same: God is omnipresent light of all that is. That is why the thumbnail does not shadow The Persian painting does not reflect the effects of light land, but an ontology of light .

If the thumbnail can be a light intelligible representation implies that man has a faculty able to see.

Painted in gouache on paper, enclose in valuable manuscripts copied by hand, it is a collective work: working in highly organized workshops, the calligrapher, painter, the illuminator and bookbinder unite to write and illustrate the literary masterpieces of Persian Muslim.

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