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Armies of the Demon Naraka: Page from a Bhagavata Purana Manuscript Northern India, Delhi
Shri Bhairavi DeviAlthough Akbar commissioned a number of manuscripts on Hindu subjects, later Mughal paintings of Hindu subjects are rare. This single page illustrates a horrific form of the Devi and was painted by one of the premier artists of the imperial atelier
Guy (New Delhi: Mapin, 1995, pp. 292, 333, figs. 9, 10, and pl. 19 as convincing
The art, poetry, and music of the Deccani courts were marked by an affinity for Persia; many rulers of this area were of Persian descent or were Shi’i and thus felt stronger ties to the west than to the Sunni rulers in northern India.
ruled by Hindu kings when the first Muslim sultanates of India were established in Delhi
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early nineteenth century and were bound with the earlier ones, most probably by a Delhi
As the custom of building large temple complexes became more widespread, so did the production of images and other objects associated with ritual and worship.
Indian schools, which gained their fullest expression in the studio workshops of Delhi
Glass Bowl and DishOf all the different categories of Mughal glass, the milky-white color of this bowl and dish ensemble constitutes the rarest type.[1] The opaque surfaces of the bowl and its matching tray are decorated with identical flowering shrubs enclosed within oval compartments, painted in two shades of gold and silver, now tarnished into a dark metallic gray
New Delhi, India: Roli Books, 2024. cat. 127, pp. 216–20, ill.
Sultan Ibrahim ‚Adil Shah II in Procession The similarities between this diminutive painting of Ibrahim ‚Adil Shah II (reigned 1580–1627) in a procession of elephants and the far larger Sultan Ibrahim ‚Adil Shah II Riding an Elephant under a Canopy (fig
London: Sotheby Park Bernet; Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1981, no. 467.
Folio from the ChingiznamaThis late sixteenth-century Mughal painting comes from a copy of the Chingiznama1 (Book of Genghis Khan; also known as the Genghisnama), the text of which is an extract from Rashid al-Din’s fourteenth-century Jami‘ al-tawarikh (Compendium of Chronicles) that describes the life of Genghis Khan and his descendants
Delhi, 1994, pp. 100–101, and Milo Cleveland Beach 1981, p. 224.
Portrait of the Elephant ‚Alam KamanThe famous elephant immortalized here fell into the hands of the army led by Prince Khurram, the future Shah Jahan (r. 1627–58), during the Mughal campaign to annex the maharana of Mewar’s territories
„[1] Another portrait of ‘Alam Kaman in the National Museum, New Delhi, depicts
