Vintage Indian Miniature Painting Framed Mughal Procession Mughal

  

Pet & Smoke free home. Mughal painting is a South Asian. Style of painting on paper confined to miniatures. Either as book illustrations or as single works to be kept in albums muraqqa. , originating from the territory of the Mughal Empire.

It emerged from Persian miniature. Painting itself partly of Chinese origin. And developed in the court of the Mughal Empire of the 16th to 18th centuries. Battles, legendary stories, hunting scenes, wildlife, royal life, mythology, as well as other subjects have all been frequently depicted in paintings. The Mughal emperors were Muslims and they are credited with consolidating Islam in the subcontinent, and spreading Muslim (and particularly Persian) arts and culture as well as the faith.

Mughal painting immediately took a much greater interest in realistic portraiture than was typical of Persian miniatures. Animals and plants were the main subject of many miniatures for albums, and were more realistically depicted.