Tuti-nameh

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Khujista slaying the bird that advises her against marital infidelity, folio from an illustrated manuscript of Tuti-nameh (“Tales of a Parrot”), Mughal painting, c. 1560; in the Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio.

Tuti-nameh

Persian literature

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Mughal painting
…is the illustrated folktale collection Tutinamah (“Tales of a Parrot”) at the Cleveland Museum of Art in Ohio.
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…is the illustrated folktale collection Tutinamah (“Tales of a Parrot”) at the Cleveland Museum of Art in Ohio.
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South Asian arts
Mughal style: Akbar period (1556–1605)
…of Akbar are illustrations of Ṭūṭī-nāmeh (“Parrot Book; Cleveland Museum of Art) and the stupendous illustrations of the Dāstān-e Amīr Ḥamzeh (“Stories of Amīr Ḥamzeh”; Österreichisches Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna), which originally consisted of 1,400 paintings of an unusually large size (approximately 25 inches by 16 inches [65 by…
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…of Akbar are illustrations of Ṭūṭī-nāmeh (“Parrot Book; Cleveland Museum of Art) and the stupendous illustrations of the Dāstān-e Amīr Ḥamzeh (“Stories of Amīr Ḥamzeh”; Österreichisches Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna), which originally consisted of 1,400 paintings of an unusually large size (approximately 25 inches by 16 inches [65 by…
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