Mughal painting

1. Mughal Painting
By: Vivian Yu

2. Mughal Painting
South Asian
started with naturalism
animal tales
landscape
portraits
Mughal painting is emerged by Mongolian, Persian, Indian and Islamic style but
mostly Persian
spread ndian courts, both Muslim and Hindu, and later Sikh.
theme like battles, court scenes, receptions, legendary stories, hunting
scenes, wildlife, portraits, etc
at the climax during the rule of Akbar, Shah Jahan and Jahangir

3. History of Mughal Painting
Mughal painting start with
him
Emperor Humayun was in an exile, when
he got back to India, he also brought back two Persian artists Mir-Sayyid
and Abd-us-samad
in time, two persian artist’s
style got influenced by the
local styles in India

4. Artists
The most important artists
are the two painters that was
brought back to India with
Emperor Humayun Mir-
Sayyid Ali and Abd-us-samad
every painter take them as
the model of every mughal
paintings

5. Style
Tutinama is the earliest
example of Mughal style
Tales of Parrot
14th century Perisan series,
containing 52 stories with 250
pieces of paintings
show Mughal style in a
formative way

6. Decline of Mughal Paintingarrival of Shah Alam II
(1759~1856) 18th emperor
cbrought up a new style Rajput
painting start evolving

7. Look for Mughal Painting
Find collections of Mughal Painting at
Victoria and Albert Museums of London, British Museum,Cleveland Museum of Art