The Mughal school of Miniature Painting:-
Babur (1526-30) the fifth
decendent of Taimurlung conquered Northern India in 1526 and established the
Mughal empire in India. He inherited taimur’s qualities of patronizing music,
poetry and philosphical learning and had inherent love for art as well.
In 1544 A.D, while coming
to India, Humayun brought two famous Painters, abdul shamad shiraji
(specialized in animal painting) and “Meer Sayyed ali” (well versed in village
painting).
For the time being these
two painters only constructed the base Mughal School of Painting.
At the time of Akbar,
Irani and Indian both styles were infused which led to the origin of
independent Mughal style. In the supervission of “ Kwaja Abul Shamad”, a
separate art gallery was established by Akbar , At the time of jahangir Mugal
Painting was on its climax. “Abdul Fazl” wrote adetained history of the mughal
Dynasty – “ The
Akabarnama“ – including in it an encyclopedia account of the adminstration of
the court and empire (the ain- e- akbari, or institute of akbar). Akbar
selected passages of the texts which he wished illustrated and examined the
work of the artists regularly. Abdul Fazl who presented this great work to
Akbar in 1590 noted that over a 100 of the illustrations in “akbarnama” were considered to be “famous
masterpieces of Art”. The paintings of
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