The painting dating back to the 8th century AD belongs to this school. This school emphasized on the symbolic use of colours and the themes were often taken from the Buddhist Tantric rituals. Nalanda, ...

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 ...

Exploring metamorphosis of Mughal art from Bahadur Shah Zafar to present-day miniaturists I have been reading Bazm – I – Aakhir (Urdu) which means The Last Gathering in English. In many ways the title ...

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 ...

When Mughal emperor Akbar invited Portuguese Jesuits from Goa to his court in 1579, they were elated. Converting Akbar to Christianity would be their biggest achievement outside the European world.

In today's world of global politics, the image is, almost, everything. We're all familiar with the carefully staged photographs of leaders who know exactly what it means to be pictured with a ...

For ages, Mughal and Rajput miniature paintings have provided a vivid window into the past, relating tales from the lives and times of kings and queens. Now those contemplative royals are speaking up ...

Graced as the capital of the great Mughal Empire by Emperor Akbar, Lahore became the nucleus of royal, creative activities as well as imperial architecture of the time. These grand traditions still ...