Khosrau II at battle

Another Khosrau Parviz (The "Invincible") artwork. Here I painted him as the king of kings was depicted in Taq-E-Bostan ([link]); as a heavy savaran, with a shirt of mail, heavy vambraces, half-barded horse and heavy spear. At his side an attendant holding the king's royal helmet, in the background the sassanid's imperial standard. The bodyguard's shield pattern is taken from a sassanid's wall stuco decoration. The king is directing his army to the clash with the byzantines at the most intense of the romano-persian wars, that ended with a crushing defeat for the sassanids, and lead to the deposal of Khosrau and his ultimate demise.

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