1.   But side by side, the paintings tell a story of how a new Persian art developed, inspired by Western models but still Persian to the core.

2.   Even fragmented, this Shahnama speaks of a golden moment in Persian art.

3.   Late Persian art, which practically no one has seriously looked at for years, is making a splash at the Brooklyn Museum of Art.

4.   Nothing quite like this late Persian art had ever appeared in Asia.