The Giant Zumurrud Shah flees with his army by flying away on urns sent by sorcerers, Folio from the Hamza-Nama c. 1562-1577 - MAK/Georg Mayer Emeralds the size of eyeballs. Gold daggers set with ...
Director's foreword -- Preface / Susan Stronge -- Introduction / Rajeev Kinra -- The reign of Akbar (r. 1556-1605) Tje reign of Akbar: the creation of a new art / Susan Stronge -- The bronze and ...
One of the most charming images in this exhibition about the Mughals is a watercolour of great delicacy, rather like a picture from a late medieval Book of Hours, showing a pilgrim on a journey with ...
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“The Great Mughals: Art, Architecture and Opulence”, on display at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum until May 5, reanimates a familiar narrative in the historiography of South Asian art: one ...
475 years after he was laid to rest, Zahiruddin Muhammad Babur Mirza is back in the news. Thanks to Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. On the agenda for his two-day visit to Kabul was a visit to ...
The first Mughal emperor, Babur, wrested power from the Lodi dynasty in 1526 and wrote one of the world’s outstanding memoirs; the second, Humayun, rallied from defeat and exile to restore Mughal ...