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Govardhan, Emperor Jahangir visiting the ascetic Jadrup, c. 1616–1620 [1]. Mughal painting is a South Asian style of painting on paper confined to miniatures either as book illustrations or as single works to be kept in albums (), originating from the territory of the Mughal Empire in the Indian subcontinent.
Marvels of the East: Indian Paintings of the Mughal Period from the Khalili Collection. May–July 2000, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel; Empire of the Sultans: Ottoman Art from the Khalili Collection. July–Oct 2000 Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan, USA; Oct 2000 – Jan 2001 Albuquerque Museum of Art and History, Albuquerque, New ...
Portrait of an old man, a presumed self-portrait (detail). Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Farrukh Beg (Persian: فرخ بیگ; c. 1547 – after 1615), also known as Farrukh Husayn, was a Persian miniature painter, who spent a bulk of his career in Safavid Iran and Mughal India, praised by Mughal Emperor Jahangir as "unrivaled in the age."
The Gulshan album was an early project of the cultured Mughal emperor Jahangir (r. 1605–1627). [7] Based on internal inscriptions, the collection was probably begun about 1599, while Jahangir was still Prince Salim, governor of Allahabad and son of the ageing Emperor Akbar, and continued till about 1609. [6]
Mughal painting is a style of Indian painting, generally confined to illustrations on the book and done in miniatures, and which emerged, developed and took shape during the period of the Mughal Empire between the 16th and 19th centuries. [29]
Jahangir took his connoisseurship of art very seriously. He also preserved paintings from Emperor Akbar's period. An excellent example of this is the painting done by Ustad Mansur of Musician Naubat Khan, son-in-law of legendary Tansen. In addition to their aesthetic qualities, paintings created under his reign were closely catalogued, dated ...
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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 ...