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TWO LOVERS
Persian miniaturist-style fresco, late-16th/early-17th century
Chehel Sotun Palace, Isfahan, Iran
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"O, you, whom of the whole universe is my heart’s chosen one!
you, who are dearer than the soul that moves me, the eyes that illuminate me!
there is nothing, O idol, more precious than life:
and yet! you are one hundred times dearer still."
Omar Khayyam, The Rubaiyat (quatrain 2)
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