The Birth Scene of Iskandar (Alexander the Great) Ayşin Yoltar-Yıldırım Synopsis: Museum collections often include works that are unidentified or inadequately studied. This presentation chases the source of an interesting birth scene depicted on a detached manuscript page, now held in the Brooklyn Museum, to an episode described in Nizami’s Iskandarnama (Book of Alexander). References: Milstein, Rachel.…
