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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Posthumous portrait of the Mughal emperor Muhammad Shah (r. 1719–48) holding a falcon, 1764. Muhammad Rizavi Hindi (Indian, active mid-1700s). Mughal, probably Lucknow. Opaque watercolor with gold on ...

The Benkaim collection will augment the museum’s strong but numerically limited holdings in Mughal painting. Quintanilla said she met Catherine Benkaim, who publishes her writings as Catherine Glynn, ...

"Real Birds in Imagined Gardens publishes Kavita Singh's lecture titled Looking East, Looking West: Mughal Painting between Persia and Europe, held at the Getty Center on 19 November 2015" -- title ...

This painting by artist Bichitr shows Jehangir sitting on top of an hourglass-shaped throne, presenting a book to an old, white-bearded Sufi Shaikh with an Ottoman sultan, James I of England in ...

Left: ‘Maharao Bhim Singh fights Qilich Khan’. Kota, 18th century. Right: Jahangir presents Prince Khurram with a turban ornament, Padshahnama, 1640. | From 'Reflections on Mughal Art and Culture'.