The Seduction of Yusuf.

Painting

The Seduction of Yusuf

The Seduction of Yusuf

The Seduction of Yusuf

Kamal ud-Din Behzad

Kamal ud-Din Behzad

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