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Sheila Canby

Birch Curator in Charge
Department of Islamic Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art

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New York, NY, USA

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Dr. Sheila (Patty) Canby joined the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2009 after eighteen years as a curator at the British Museum. Her publications include Shah `Abbas: The Remaking of Iran, Islamic Art in Detail, Persian Painting, The Shahnama of Shah Tahmasp and Court and Cosmos: the Great Age of the Seljuqs.

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