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The Emperor Shah Jahan standing on a globe, with a halo and European-style putti, c. 1618–19 to 1629. The Mughal painting style later spread to other Indian courts, both Muslim and Hindu, and later Sikh, and was often used to depict Hindu subjects. This was mostly in northern India.
The Passing of Shah Jahan is a Miniature painting, painted by the Indian artist Abanindranath Tagore in 1902. The painting depicts a scene in which the fifth Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan stares upon the Taj Mahal on his deathbed, with his daughter Jahanara Begum at his feet.
Shah Jahan and his Son: c. 1656-58: pen and brown ink, with brown wash, on Japanese paper toned with light brown wash: h 94 mm × w 86 mm: Rijksmuseum, Netherlands: 16: Shah Jahan: c. 1656-61: Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash: Height: 22.5; Width: 17.1 cm: Cleveland Museum of Art, United States: 17: Shah Jahan, Standing with a Flower ...
The Shah Jahan Album, also known as the Kevorkian Album or the Emperor's Album, is a series of Mughal miniatures dating between 1620–1820 from Mughal India. The album was intended for a private audience, likely consisting of the royal family and close friends. [ 1 ]
Shah Jahan at his Durbar, from the Windsor Padshahnama, c. 1657 Shah Jahan the Great Mogul Throne of Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan of India, Red Fort, Delhi. Evidence from the reign of Shah Jahan states that in 1648 the army consisted of 911,400 infantry, musketeers, and artillery men, and 185,000 Sowars commanded by princes and nobles.
Govardhan (fl. 1595–1640) [1] was a Mughal era Indian painter of the Mughal school of painting. His father Bhavani Das, had been a minor painter in the imperial workshop. Like many other Mughal painters, they were Hindus. He joined the imperial service during the reign of Akbar and he continued his work till the reign of Shah Jahan. The ...
The Mughal Army led by Prince Aurangzeb, Syed Khan-i-Jahan, Abdullah Khan Bahadur Firuz Jang and Khan Dauran enter Orchha.. Shah Jahan in his eighth regnal year asked Muhammad Amin Qazvini to write an official history of his reign and he completed his Badshahnama in 1636, which covers the first ten (lunar) years of Shah Jahan’s reign.
Bichitr (fl. 17th century) was an Indian painter during the Mughal period, patronized by the emperors Jahangir and Shah Jahan. [1] The earliest known painting of his is a mature work from c. 1615. Most of his paintings are formal portraits, and a large number of portraits in the 1630s are credited to him. Stuart Cary Welch, noting that he ...