Mughal painting

Small Mughal paintings, 20x29cm typically, take up to three months to complete.

For the best part of 300 years after his death, Mughal painting flourished in one form or another.

During his reign the distinctive style of Mughal painting expanded and blossomed.

The counterpart is a Mughal painting from India in which the same act seems to be part of a religious ritual.

Jahangir (1605-27) had an artistic inclination and during his reign Mughal painting developed further.

The art of Mughal painting reached great heights under Jahangir's reign.

Mughal painting immediately took a much greater interest in realistic portraiture than was typical of Persian miniatures.

The survival of even a few in something approaching pristine condition is of signal importance to anyone who loves Mughal painting.

Mughal painting also reached its peak during Jehangir's reign which lost much of its glamour after his death.

Mughal paintings were a unique blend of Indian, Persian and Islamic styles.

He was not trained in any classical dance form but developed his own style based on his study of Rajput and Mughal paintings.

Highly influenced by Mughal painting, this style makes use of bright colours and mostly depicts regional landscape, culture, costumes and jewellery.

Imperial Mughal Painting.

During the reign of Shah Jahan (1628-58), Mughal paintings continued to develop, but they gradually became cold and rigid.

His style was deeply influenced by Mughal painting and Rajasthani miniature paintings, where too within the overall framework, individual sections display autonomy.

The style blended traditional elements from Rajput and Mughal painting with a more Western treatment of perspective, volume and recession.

The sub-imperial school of Mughal painting included artists such as Mushfiq, Kamal, and Fazl.

These responses found their most innovative and elastic synthesis in early and mid-period Mughal painting, when the dynastic self-image was still malleable and fresh.

Later in the Rajput period, both somewhat influenced by Western art, night scenes were painted dramatically with shadows and Mughal paintings used chiaroscuro for shading.

Bygone tastes and beliefs, vanished modes of life, forgotten nuances of behavior - all can be found in Mughal painting if we know where to look for them.

A Mughal painting of Krishna bifurcating the body of a demon with his discus is a masterpiece of special-effects blood and gore.

Mughal painting developed and flourished during the reigns of Akbar, Shah Jahan and Jahangir.

Themes including musical parties; lovers, sometimes in intimate positions, on terraces and gardens; and ascetics gathered around a fire, abound in the Mughal paintings of this period.

She has also contributed to recording Mughal painting and applied arts, the artistic connections between Europe and Mughal India, and imperial symbolism.

An Indian Mughal painting rediscovered in St. Petersburg in the 1950s shows a Dodo along with native Indian birds.