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 ...

(MENAFN- Live Mint) A miniature painting has set a new world record for the most expensive classical Indian artwork. The piece, attributed to Basawan, one of Mughal emperor Akbar's favourite artists, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The discovery of the Dutch painter reproducing Mughal painting is a curious matter for many in Pakistan Rembrandt van Rijn died three hundred years ago in faraway Netherlands. But you can still ...

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 ...