For centuries in the Islamic world, books have been treasured as precious objects worthy of royal admiration. This was especially true for India’s Mughal emperors, who reigned over a vast and wealthy ...

Time hasn't been kind to that artistic accomplishment. Of the tens of thousands of pages of exquisite calligraphy and illumination produced under Akbar, perhaps only 5 percent still exist, thanks to ...

India’s Mughal emperors, who reigned over a vast and wealthy empire that extended over most of the South Asian subcontinent between the 16th and 19th centuries, were passionate about lavish ...

Note: To commemorate the 38th death anniversary of renowned historian ABM Habibullah we are reprinting one of his articles on Mughal painting. The article was first published in Pakistan Quarterly in ...

Emeralds and empires, rubies and royalty, pearls and power. In the early 16th century, Muslim invaders from the West swept into Hindu India and established a dynasty that lasted into the mid-19th ...

A miniature painting has set a new world record for the most expensive classical Indian artwork. The piece, attributed to Basawan, one of Mughal emperor Akbar's favourite artists, sold at Christie's ...

During Asok’s academic journey, he encountered some rare Mughal miniature collections, as far flung as Iran, Ireland and Russia. “I became interested in how Mughal painting developed and changed under ...

Dutch artist Rembrandt was an early adopter of the miniature art being produced in the subcontinent during the 17th century The exchange between the Dutch Golden Age and the Mughal Empire is part of ...

New Delhi: A swordfight rages outside Masjid Khairul Manazil in Shahjahanabad even while shopkeepers sell wares to customers. A lot is happening in the 17th-century Mughal painting from Akbar’s reign.

'Princes of the House of Timur' is one of the most important of Mughal paintings, due to its large size and early date: it is thought to have been started c. 1555, at the beginning of the Mughal ...