At the Poldi Pezzoli Museum, the Carpet of Tigers is on display.

Until March 20, 2023, the Poldi Pezzoli Museum is exhibiting the Tiger Carpet in the Salone Dorato. This is a carpet woven in Quazvin, one of the royal cities of central Persia, between 1560 and 1570.

It was purchased by Gian Giacomo Poldi Pezzoli in 1855 in a private auction. Considered one of the masterpieces of the Milanese museum’s collection, the carpet was withdrawn from display in 1982 for conservation reasons and restored for periodic public display. Now, in the Golden Hall, it is in dialogue with Renaissance masterpieces, as Poldi Pezzoli himself wished.

Aninscription, in silver brocade, that runs along the inner frame of the carpet’s border reveals its royal destination: “Blessed is the carpet that becomes a shadow under the Shah’s steps...they have spun its weave with the thread of the soul, they have spun it for the Darius of the world....” This is probably Shah Tamhasp I, who ruled Persia from 1524 to 1576.

The compositional scheme of the carpet is classical with a central medallion on a blue background decorated with flowers and birds; in the central part on a red background, a garden is depicted in which trees, plants and animals, real or fantastic, and two pairs of Hourì, angelic creatures in the guise of young girls with beautiful eyes, are distributed with symmetrical rigor and harmony.

For info: www.museopoldipezzoli.it

At the Poldi Pezzoli Museum, the Carpet of Tigers is on display.

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