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Also Known As Mogul painting
Date c. 1530 - c. 1806
Related Artists Khwāja ʿAbd-uṣ-Ṣamad • Basavan • Bichitr • Mīr Sayyid ʿAli • Daulat • Dasvant • Manṣūr • Bishandas • Abu al-Hasan • Govardhan • Manohar • Farrukh Beg

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Emperor Babur receives a visitor in this folio from the Baburnama (The Book of Babur). As the visitor bows, courtiers and attendants stand nearby, their attire and accessories along with a fly whisk, carpet, and tent depicting the opulence of royal life.
The Baburnama
This page is from The Tuti-Nama, a Persian book of fifty-two moral tales written in the early fourteenth century. The stories are told by a clever talking parrot, who speaks to a woman named Khujasta as shown in the illustration alongside the text. The Cleveland Museum of Art's copy of the manuscript was painted for Emperor Akbar (r. 1556-1605) and represents the origins of Mughal painting.
Akbar Hunting
Krishna lifting Mount Govardhan
Jahangir
Mughal Empire: Jahangir, Akbar, and Shah Jahan
ʿAbbās I
Architecturally planned park landscape for an imperial residence containing an artificially meandering river and pavilions, an example of the ideal landscapes of Mughal India, miniature from a 17th- or 18th-century album; in the National Museums of Berlin.
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