
Painting
About the artwork
Yusuf flees Zulaikha through a palace built like a moral maze of locked rooms and sharp turns. The architecture is symbolic: beauty, temptation, and escape are all structured into the same visual labyrinth. Behzad turns a story shared by Islamic, biblical, and Persian literary traditions into a disciplined drama of desire and restraint.
ARTWORK DETAILS
1488
Islamic
National Library and Archives of Egypt
Cairo
Kamal ud-Din Behzad / National Library and Archives of Egypt