Mughal painting is a style of painting on paper confined to miniatures either as book illustrations or as single works to be kept in albums, from the territory of the Mughal Empire in South Asia.
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13 Facts About Mughal painting
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Mughal painting emperors were Muslims and they are credited with consolidating Islam in South Asia, and spreading Muslim arts and culture as well as the faith.
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Mughal painting immediately took a much greater interest in realistic portraiture than was typical of Persian miniatures.
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From fairly early the Mughal painting style made a strong feature of realistic portraiture, normally in profile, and influenced by Western prints, which were available at the Mughal painting court.
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Mughal painting sees considerable borrowings from Chinese animal paintings on paper, which seem not to have been highly valued by Chinese collectors, and so reached India.
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Mughal court painting, as opposed to looser variants of the Mughal style produced in regional courts and cities, drew little from indigenous non-Muslim traditions of painting.
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In contrast Mughal painting was "almost entirely secular", although religious figures were sometimes portrayed.
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Mughal painting had studied painting in his youth under Abd as-Samad, though it is not clear how far these studies went.
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Mughal painting encouraged his royal atelier to take up the single point perspective favoured by European artists, unlike the flattened multi-layered style used in traditional miniatures.
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Mughal painting particularly encouraged paintings depicting events of his own life, individual portraits, and studies of birds, flowers and animals.
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Mughal painting generally involved a group of artists, one to decide and outline the composition, the second to actually paint, and perhaps a third who specialized in portraiture, executing individual faces.
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Skills needed to produce these modern versions of Mughal miniatures are still passed on from generation to generation, although many artisans employ dozens of workers, often painting under trying working conditions, to produce works sold under the signature of their modern masters.
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