A splendid c1618 AD #IndianMiniaturePainting of Gujarati minor Rulers Rao Bharah & Jassa Ram now at Victoria and Albert #Museum London

When #Jahangirnama (Memoirs of the Mughal ruler #Jahangir) was being made, the #Mughal court was in #Ahmedabad giving #Artist #Bishandas the only opportunity (this was the only time he travelled outside his province) to study these two minor Rulers of #Gujarat!

#IndianHistory #IndianHeritage #History #Heritage #ArtOfTheDay #Art #Histodons #MastoArt #Paintings

The Crucifixion of #JesusChrist

This c1590 CE #IndianMiniaturePainting from the 'Small Clive Album' associated with Robert Clive, the 1st Baron of Plassey (1725-1774) was made for the #Mughal ruler #Jahangir while he was still a Prince living at #Lahore

This fabulous & high quality #Painting is now in the collection of Victoria and Albert #Museum London

#GoodFriday #goodfriday2025

#Art #IndianHistory #IndianHeritage #ArtHistory #Heritage #History #artoftheday #MastoArt #Histodons #MughalArt

Indien, Kaschmir: Sommerfrische der Moguln und „ein wahres Paradies auf Erden“

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Autor:
Wolfgang Brugger

Reisezeit:
Juli 1982

Art der Reise:
1 Monat Rucksackreise

Lesezeit:
Minuten

#Indien #ReiseBerichte #Vintage #Delhi #Indien #Indien82 #Jahangir #JammuAndKashmir #Kaschmir #Kashmir #Moghul #Mogul #NeuDelhi #NewDelhi #Srinagar #Vintage

Here in #London today.

Listening to William Dalrymple's Empire Podcast: 'Zebras & Zodiacs: #Jahangir & #Mughal Art Revolution'
& Visiting Victoria & Albert #Museum exhibition 'The Great Mughals: #Art Architecture and Opulence' to view this c1620 CE #IndianMiniaturePainting by artist #UstadMansur of a Zebra presented to Jahangir by Mir Jafar who acquired this from the Turkish traders visiting #India

#ArtHistory #IndianHeritage #IndianHistory #History #Paintings #artoftheday #MastoArt #Histodons

'Mythical Beasts with #Elephants'.

c1610 CE #IndianMiniaturePainting in #NimQalam (Pen Drawing Art style where elements are supplemented by pale colours) from #Mughal ruler #Jahangir's atelier at #Agra now on view at Victoria and Albert #Museum #London exhibition: "The Great #Mughals: Art, Architecture and Opulence" till 5th May.

#MastoArt #ArtHistory #IndianHeritage #Art #History #Histodons #IndianHistory #Paintings #MughalArt #MughalPainting #Museums #Painting #MughalEmpire #India

An exhibition on the extraordinary creative output of the Golden Age of the #Mughal Court from the reigns of #Akbar #Jahangir & #ShahJahan (1556-1605 AD) is on at Victoria & Albert #Museum #London till May5, 2025

One of the items on display here is this c1600 CE #IndianMiniaturePainting of a 'Portrait of a European' from #Agra #India

#IndianHeritage #ArtHistory #Art #artoftheday #IndianHistory #Heritage #History #Museums #Painting #MughalHistory #MughalArt #MughalEmpire #MastoArt #Histodons

An unusual 18th century #MughalArt #IndianMiniaturePainting from #Agra falsely attributed to #Mughal #Artist Dalchand of "Emperor #Jahangir (ruled 1605-1627 CE) with a Peri (Fairy) & a Mallard"

Now at Indian #Museum #Calcutta (#Kolkata) #Bengal #India

Dalchand was a #Rajput artist of the #Kishangarh #Rajasthan School of #Art & may have trained at #Lahore before moving to #Delhi in 1707 CE

#IndianHistory #ArtHistory #artoftheday #IndianHeritage #History #Heritage #Painting #MastoArt #Histodons

So, it rained in #Delhi #NewDelhi again.
April & May are usually dry months up in the North of #India
Effects of #ClimaticChange ?

This Important c1740 AD #Mughal #IndianMiniaturePainting by #Artist Nidha Mal was sold by Sothebys
#Mughal emperor #Jahangir's Wife #NurJahan & Mumtaz Begum Smoking a #Huqqa & Admiring #DelhiWeather from the Terrace of a Palace, with #QutubMinar Visible in Distant.

#Art #IndianHistory #IndianHertitage #MastoArt #Histodons #Paintings #History #Heritage #Hookah

Moon Sighting at the end of #Ramadan   

"Hilal-i-Eid bar auj-i-falak huwaida shud".
(The new moon of #Eid has appeared in the sky)
Standing on ramparts of #RedFort #Delhi these words were uttered by the #Mughal ruler #Jahangir to his wife #NurJahan in c1605 AD

#EidUlFitr #EidMubarak to everyone.

This c1800 CE #MughalArt style #IndianMiniaturePainting from #Lucknow #Awadh is now at Ashmolean #Museum UK.

#IndianHistory #Art #Artist #Histodons #Heritage #History #MastoArt #IndianHertitage

#HappyNowruz

Today is the New Year of the Parsees, the followers of #Zoroastrianism #Religion whose ancestors originally came to #India from #Persia #Iran in the 7th & 8th centuries AD

Here #Mughal Emperor #Jahangir celebrates the #PersianNewYear of #Nowruz in this c1617 CE #MughalArt #IndianMiniaturePainting attributed to #Artist Manohar from the St. Petersburg Album now at the Russian Academy of Sciences

#Art #IndianHeritage #IndianHistory #Painting #Heritage #History #Histodons #MastoArt