Mughal painting developed in the court of the Mughal Empire from the 16th to 18th centuries. It emerged from Persian miniature painting, incorporating Indian influences. Mughal paintings were typically miniatures for book illustrations or single works in albums. They often depicted court scenes, portraits of rulers and nobility, or scenes from daily life and mythology. Many artists worked in the imperial atelier, including Persians who came with Humayun to India, as well as Hindu artists. The style flourished under Akbar and Jahangir, with master artists creating spectacular works, and continued during Shah Jahan's reign despite his lack of support. Today, the art form continues through artists in Lahore who produce copies

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3. MUGHAL PAINTING
Mughal painting is a particular style of South
Asian painting, generally confined to miniatures
either as book illustrations or as single works to
be kept in albums, which emerged from Persian
miniature painting (itself largely of Chinese
origin), with Indian Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist
influences, and developed largely in the court of
the Mughal Empire of the 16th to 18th
centuries.
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4. Babur Receives a
Courtier by
Farrukh Beg c.
1580-85. Opaque
watercolor and
gold on paper,
painted and
mounted within
borders of a
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A durbar scene
with the newly
crowned
Emperor
Aurangzeb in his
golden throne.
Though he did
not encourage
Mughal painting,
some of the best
work was done
during in his
reign.

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Mir Sayyid Ali's
depiction of a
young scholar in
the Mughal
Empire, reading
and writing a
commentary on
the Quran, 1559.

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A young woman
playing a Veena to a
parakeet, a symbol
of her absent lover.
18th-century
painting in the
provincial Mughal
style of Bengal

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Mughal Ganjifa Playing Cards, Early 19th
century, with miniature paintings -
courtesy of the Wovensouls collection

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Akbar riding the
elephant Hawa'I
pursuing another
elephant across a
collapsing bridge of
boats (right), 1561

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A noble lady,
Mughal
dynasty,
India. 17th
century. Color
and gold on
paper.

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The Emperor
Shah Jahan
standing on a
globe, c. 1618-
19 to 1629.
Opaque
Watercolor, ink
and gold on
paper.

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13. ARTISTS
• The Persian master artists Abd al-Samad and Mir Sayyid Ali, who had accompanied
Humayun to India in the 16th century, were in charge of the imperial atelier during the
formative stages of Mughal painting. Many artists worked on large commissions, the
majority of them apparently Hindu, to judge by the names recorded. Mughal painting
flourished during the late 16th and early 17th centuries with spectacular works of art by
master artists such as Basawan, Lal, Daswanth,[13] and Miskin. Another influence on
the evolution of style during Akbar's reign was Kesu Das, who understood and
developed "European techniques of rendering space and volume".[14]
• Govardhan was a noted painter during the reigns of Akbar, Jahangir and Shah Jahan.
• The sub-imperial school of Mughal painting included artists such as Mushfiq, Kamal,
and Fazl.
• During the first half of the 18th century, many Mughal-trained artists left the imperial
workshop to work at Rajput courts. These include artists such as Bhawanidas and his
son Dalchand.
• Mughal painting generally involved a group of artists, one to decide the composition,
the second to actually paint, and the third to focus on portraiture, executing individual
faces
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14. MUGHAL STYLE TODAY
• Mughal-style miniature paintings are still being created
today by a small number of artists in Lahore
concentrated mainly in the National College of Arts.
Although many of these miniatures are skillful copies of
the originals, some artists have produced contemporary
works using classic methods with, at times, remarkable
artistic effect.
• The skills needed to produce these modern versions of
Mughal miniatures are still passed on from generation to
generation, although many artisans also employ dozens
of workers, often painting under trying working
conditions, to produce works sold under the signature of
their modern masters.
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