Styles Genres Museums Artists Support

An open visual arts database with 825,000+ artworks, 75,000+ artists, and 750+ styles spanning centuries of human creativity.

Browse

Styles
Genres
Museums
Artists
Favorites

Popular Styles

Impressionism
Romanticism
Surrealism
Pop Art
Cubism
Realism

Museums

Art Institute of Chicago
MoMA
Rijksmuseum
Cleveland Museum of Art
The MET
Louvre

VisualArtsDB is free and open for everyone.

Support the project

© 2026 VisualArtsDB

Invocation (Basmala) by Calligraphy by Muhammad Qazwini — VisualArtsDB

Invocation (Basmala)

Invocation (Basmala)

Calligraphy by Muhammad Qazwini

1845

Medium: Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper
Dimensions: 21.9 x 27.7 cm (8 5/8 x 10 7/8 in.)
Genre: Calligraphy
Museum: Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, US

Tags

persian

More by Calligraphy by Muhammad Qazwini

Blessing for Imam Husayn, calligraphic composition

Blessing for Imam Husayn, calligraphic composition

Calligraphy by Muhammad Qazwini, 1884