Curator Stephanie Schrader on the Dutch master’s fascination with Mughal miniatures. Curator Stephanie Schrader on the Dutch master’s fascination with Mughal miniatures. At the current exhibition, ...
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 ...
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, ...
Gopa Trivedi’s works are at once beautiful and unsettling, with haunting creatures that are just as delicate as her flowers ...
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 ...
Despite being listed within the AA category of objects that are valued as rare, fragile, and unique, this lavish painting of Jahangir with the portrait of the Madonna remains understudied. It shows us ...
Mir Sayyid Ali painted this tiny — but hugely celebrated — Mughal work at the court of Emperor Akbar I For more than 10 years, Trong Gia Nguyen, an artist in Brooklyn, has been writing every word of ...
New Delhi: When veteran archaeologist KK Muhammed was on a hunt for Akbar’s Ibadat Khana in Fatehpur Sikri, a 500-year-old Mughal painting came to his rescue. A piece of art became a tool for looking ...
When the Mughals left the country hundreds of years ago, they left their imprints on the Indian culture and art form. Today we get only glimpses of the bygone Mughal era through period films, old ...