Admiring ‘The Greatest Persian Carpet Ever Made’

Christopher Knight on the Ardabil Carpet: “[S]tand at one end of the enormous carpet – it’s more than 23 feet long and 13 feet wide – and an immense garden of formal and conceptual splendor unfurls before you. … With its deep indigo field, the floral carpet, royally commissioned for a dynastic shrine, pictures a sky garden’s vivacious glory spread beneath your feet.”