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🔆Mughal Paintings :

✅ Mughal painting echoes an elite mixture of Indian, Persian and Islamic styles.
✅ The Mughal paintings are developed during the rule of Mughal Emperors in India (16th to 19th century).
✅ The themes of the Mughal paintings orbited around the battles, court scenes, receptions, legendary stories, hunting scenes, wildlife, portraits, etc.

▪️History:

✅ The earliest example of the Mughal style is the Tutinama (‘Tales of a Parrot’) Painting.
✅Indian Mughal paintings emerged during the rule of Mughal Emperor, Humayun (1530-1540).
✅ When he returned to India from the outcast, he additionally brought along two eminent Persian artists, Mir-Sayyid Ali and Abd-us-samad.
✅ Mughal paintings of India advanced as well as flourished under the reign of Mughal Emperors, Akbar, Jahangir and Shah Jahan.

Growth of Mughal Painting

▪️Akbar

✅ Mughal painting has advanced largely in the reign of Akbar
✅ The paintings are usually based on tales and epics like the Mahabharata, Ramayana and Persian epics.
✅ It also started demonstrating an enriched naturalism, with animal tales, landscape, portraits, etc.
✅ Akbar established a separate department for painting.
✅ He started the concept of Karkhana.
✅ Indian painters were also present in karkhana. That’s why there is Indian influence in the paintings.
✅ Famous painters of that time are Dashwant, Baswan and Kesu.
✅ Most of the paintings during Akbar’s reign were miniature paintings.

▪️Jahangir

✅ Mughal Emperor Jahangir ruled from 1605 to 1627
He stretched great support to several art forms, specifically paintings.
✅ This era has seen enhancement in brushwork, along with the usage of much lighter and subdued colors.
✅ The main themes of this era’s paintings were revolved around the events from the life of Jahangir’s, along with portraits, birds, flowers, animals, etc.
✅ He also started the portrait paintings.
✅ Decoration of margins started from his time.
✅ He also has his own workshop for painting.
✅ One of the famous painters of that time was Ustad Mansoor.
✅ And famous paintings of that time are zebra, Turkey, and Maulana-do-Pyaza.

▪️Shah Jahan :

✅ The elegance and modification of the Jahangir period were seen at the time of Shah Jahan also.
✅ The themes were musical parties, lovers on terraces and gardens, ascetics gathered around a fire, etc.

▪️Decline :

✅ The trend that was seen amid the season of Shah Jahan was also found under the reign of Aurangzeb.
✅Be that as it may, the Aurangzeb did not pay too much attention to the development of the Mughal paintings.
✅ The period of Muhammad Shah did experience a short revitalization of the Mughal paintings.
✅ With the onset of Shah Alam II, the art almost became non-existent and alternative school of painting, recognized as Rajput paintings, started developing.

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