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Mughal Miniature Paintings

 
 
Mughal Miniature - Mughal Emperor Babur (1483-1530),  National Museum, New Delhi
Mughal Miniature - Babur crossing the river Son - A folio from the Babur-nama, Artist: Jagnath, National Museum, New Delhi
Mughal Emperor Babur
(1483-1530),
National Museum, New Delhi
Babur crossing the river Son,
A folio from the Babur-nama, Artist: Jagnath,
National Museum, New Delhi
 
 
Mughal Miniature - Mughal Emperor Akbar (1556-1605), National Museum, New Delhi
Mughal Miniature - Akbar Hunting, circa 1598-1600 AD, National Museum, New Delhi
Mughal Emperor Akbar
(1556-1605),
National Museum, New Delhi
Akbar Hunting,
circa 1598-1600 A.D.,
National Museum, New Delhi
 
 
Mughal Miniature - Jahangir holding the picture of Madonna,  circa 1620 AD, National Museum, New Delhi
Jahangir holding the picture of Madonna,
circa 1620 A.D.,
National Museum, New Delhi
Nativity,
circa 1720 A.D.,
National Museum, New Delhi
 
 
Mughal Miniature - Kalawant Tansen, circa 1590 AD, National Museum, New Delhi
Mughal Miniature - Mughal Empress Nurjahan, circa 1740-50AD, National Museum, New Delhi
Kalawant Tansen,
circa 1590 A.D,
National Museum, New Delhi
Nurjahan,
circa 1740 - 50 A.D.,
National Museum, New Delhi
 
The art of the post-Akbar era did not have the illustrative thrust. General finish and colour mixing was finer but in execution the earlier boldness had been replaced by a touch of softness. The beauty of lines and the delicacy of colours reached the point of perfection. Rhythm was now the quality of the entire canvas and not of lines alone. The earlier crowded canvas had now a lot of breathing space. Jahangir had a sharp eye sensitive to beauty of both man and nature. This and his great poetic genius endowed with fine imagery and lyricism reflected in the art of his era. In the warmth of heart, sense of precision and nature study it is excellent. Portraits of birds and animals of this era are timeless world classics. His interaction with the European world brought to Indian art European technique of shading and producing three-dimensional effects. 
 
Mughal Miniature - Ladies enjoying wine, circa 1650-60 AD, National Museum, New Delhi
Mughal Miniature - Wine and Verses, circa 1620 AD, National Museum, New Delhi
Ladies enjoying wine,
circa 1650 - 60 A.D.,
National Museum, New Delhi
Wine and Verses,
circa 1620 A.D.,
National Museum, New Delhi
 
Shahjahan, though architecture was his first passion, continued Mughals' art cult, with lesser thrust. Save a few romances like Dara Shikoh-Ranadil, Baz Bahadur-Roopmati or Laila Majnun, text illustration and serialisation of themes had been given up. Portraits and random themes like durbar scenes, processions, festivals, scenes of outings etc. were preferred. Architecture was more elaborate, nature and background soft, delicate and alluring and decorative patterns as if gems inlaid into a necklace. Romantic in temperament Shahjahan loved sophistication, grandeur and emotions. In the art of his time the depiction of independent scenes of war, hunting, animal fight and violence is rare whereas it brims with profusion of gold, lavish embellishment, magnificence and splendour. The warmth of flesh and sensuality marked the art of post-Akbar era. 
 
Mughal Miniature - Couple in Dalliance, circa 1630-35 AD,  National Museum, New Delhi

Couple in Dalliance,
circa 1630 - 35 A.D.,
National Museum, New Delhi
Mosque scene - A folio from the Tawarikh-i-Alfi,
circa 1595 A.D.,
National Museum, New Delhi
 
 
 
Mughal Miniature - Study of Bird, Artist; Mansur, circa 1620 AD, National Museum, New Delhi

Study of Bird,
Artist; Mansur, circa 1620 A.D.,
National Museum, New Delhi
 
Aurangzeb, a conservative Musalman as he was, had in his court no place for art. After he died, several Mughal governors and Rajput states acclaimed sovereignty. Painters of Mughal court, with no jobs there, sought refuse in these sovereign subas and states. They carried with them the Mughal art-style but the taste and likings of their new patrons and local elements were for them as much significant and an amalgamation of both created a new art-style widely known as Provincial Mughal. In it reflected the deteriorating phase of both, the Mughal art and the glory of Mughal court. With its purer idiom Oudh became the foremost seat of the Provincial Mughal art. Rajput courts had their own art-styles capable of absorbing in them Mughal art elements without losing their own identity, but sometimes, as at Datia in Bundelkhand, paintings were rendered in pure Mughal idiom with local elements subordinated to it. Such Rajput paintings also fall in the class of Provincial Mughal art. 
 
 
Mughal Miniature - Rama Durbar, Provential Mughal style, Orchha-Bundelkhand, circa 1600-1610 A.D., National Museum, New Delhi
Mughal Miniature - The marriage procession of Dara Shikoh, Artist: Haji Madani, Oudh, circa 1740 A.D., National Museum, New Delhi

Rama Durbar,
Provential Mughal style, Orchha-Bundelkhand,
circa 1600-1610 A.D.,
National Museum, New Delhi
The marriage procession of Dara Shikoh,
Artist: Haji Madani, Oudh, circa 1740 A.D.,
National Museum, New Delhi
 
 
Dr. Daljeet
(Source: Gallery Sheets of Indian Miniature paintings published by the National Museum. New Delhi)
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