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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

While most artists today thrive on a signature style, Vijit Pillai believes in reinventing his style in a way that is not easily recognizable. “I don’t want people to see my painting and ask ‘Is this ...

Artists' signatures in miniatures of the Mughal school -- The Tulip (ca 1621) : a study by Mansur -- Problem of namesakes and their identity : Farrukh, Farrukh Kalan, Farrukh Khwurd, Farrukh Chela and ...

Mughal emperor Akbar was a regular visitor to Viratnagar. The town still has a number of medieval structures like the Mughal Gate, which housed the emperor’s horses when he used to pass through it.

KARACHI: Throughout his career, AQ Arif has been fixated over the lost glory of Mughal Empire and architecture, odes to which went on to became his claim to fame. With his idée fixe intact, Arif in ...

KABUL (Reuters) - An exhibition that reproduces the precious treasures of Mughal art in their original setting in Kabul's Babur Garden opened this weekend, bringing a rare moment of cultural relief to ...

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 ...

The largest known Mughal painting portraying Emperor Jahangir seated on a gold decorated throne is to be put for auction at Bonhams in April for an estimated base price of one million pound. The ...

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