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Maria, High Queen
(ماريا ، الملكة السامية)

Title	Maria, High Queen
Title Original	ماريا ، الملكة السامية
Publication Date:	Before 1886
Publication Place	- World Museum, Vienna
Subject	Wood, oil on canvas
Type	Other
Language	Undetermined
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	No
Physical Dimensions	الارتفاع : 144.2 سم ، العرض : 102 سم
Library:	Museum With No Frontiers
Library Asset ID	25.649
Record ID	object;EPM;at;Mus23;7;ar
Library Location	World Museum, Vienna
Date	Before 1886
Notes	The piece is a Qajar-era oil painting depicting the Virgin Mary with a crown of stars placed on a crescent moon. Since the seventeenth century, countless copies of religious images from the history of European art have been circulating in Iran. These were not just simple copies, but they were appropriate to their religious and artistic concepts, and Mary is the only woman mentioned by name in Surah 19 of the Qur’an that bears her name.
Sample Text	"Maria, High Queen" inExplore Islamic Art Collections. Museum Without Borders, 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;EPM;at;Mus23;7;ar

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Maria, High Queen

(ماريا ، الملكة السامية)

Publication Date Before 1886

Publication Place - World Museum, Vienna

Subject Wood, oil on canvas

Type Other

Language Undetermined

Digital Yes

Manuscript No

Physical Dimensions الارتفاع : 144.2 سم ، العرض : 102 سم

Library Museum With No Frontiers

Library Asset ID 25.649

Record ID object;EPM;at;Mus23;7;ar

Library Location World Museum, Vienna

Date Before 1886

Notes The piece is a Qajar-era oil painting depicting the Virgin Mary with a crown of stars placed on a crescent moon. Since the seventeenth century, countless copies of religious images from the history of European art have been circulating in Iran. These were not just simple copies, but they were appropriate to their religious and artistic concepts, and Mary is the only woman mentioned by name in Surah 19 of the Qur’an that bears her name.

Sample Text "Maria, High Queen" inExplore Islamic Art Collections. Museum Without Borders, 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;EPM;at;Mus23;7;ar