prince salim and trends in paintings around 1600

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Prince Salim and Trends in

Paintings around 1600


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Around 1600 Akbar was being provokedby his son Salim born in 1569

Salim set a rival court at the !ortress o!Allahabad and here he patroni"ed hisown miniature paintings

#e selected the e$cellent painters andtrained with in the !our years accordingto his own taste% the leader was mostlikely A&a 'i"a (!ather o! Abul #asan)

Salim had an egocentric personality incontrast to the dynamic vision o! his!ather


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Salim*s personality re+ects in these paintings%which show !ewer ,gures and less illusion o!space

#is sel!-absorption also seem to have made himmore attuned to the romantic !or its own sake

#e chose .esu% /ishandas% ansur and Abul

#asan arhang-e-2ahangiri was illustrated along with

other manuscripts

An inclination towards portraiture is noted

Paintings are o! high &uality with lu$uriousborders These borders contain some o! the,nest ughal portrait which are o!ten signed


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3i4cult to dierentiate due tomissing colophons

ncouragement !or artists to makecopies o! uropean work


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2ahangir7s period was the goldenperiod o! the mughal miniaturepainting discus it with e$ample8


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2ahangir and iniature Painting(&uestion in paper)

ndividual style became apparent

Portraiture +ourished

uropean in+uence became clearly visible

3ominance o! Symbolism

n the beginning artist worked in twomodes:

1 A simpli,ed version o! Akbari court style

;ndis +at highly decorative style inspiredby Sa!avid Persian paintings


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Akbar*s practice o! collecting portraits o!courtiers continued usually !ull ,gure with

pro,le !ace and pale green background 2ahangirnama or Tu"uk-e-2ahangiri was not

completely illustrated


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Portraiture

ntense analytical realism and thestudy o! human character becamethe !eature o! 2ahangir school o!

painting

'ationally organi"ed space


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Types o! portraits

Allegorical portraits

3ynastic portraits

&uestrian portraits 2ewel portrait


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Buriosity o! !ormsand natural event

= 3ying nayat .han> 161C

irst time such topic was illustrated

Personality o! 2ahangir re+ects in hispaintings


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Allegorical Portraiture

=2ahangir pre!erring a su, to kings>by /ichitr 1615-;0

2ahangir accomplishing unachievabletasks

A psychological retreat

=2ahangir shooting poverty>

ul,llment o! political ideology

3epiction as a success!ul emperor


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mperior 2ahangir on globe% shooting an arrow at the severed head o! malik am


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2ahangir7s dream o! shah abbas Dvisit


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3ynastic Portraiture

right!ul successor and an eort to erase pastmistakes

2ahangir used his painters as tools o! ideologyand imperial wish !ul,llment

This type o! portraits ,rst time introduced during2ahangir period

Artists were re&uired to give a glori,ed

e$planation o! historical eventsthat o!tendiverged !rom reality

2ahangir embracing Shah Abbas> 161C by Abul#usan


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2ahangir with a portrait o!Akbar


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&uestrian Portrait

'ichly dressed nobles% with lance andbuckler% beauti!ully balanced onprancing

The idea is entirely ndian

#orses in Persian pictures arecommon% and cavaliers charging

across the country on +eet Arabsteeds are !re&uently represented

n Persian painting the e&uestrian

portrait is practically unknown


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The ughal were no better horsemen than

the Persians% neither are their drawings o!the animal so good as those o! the Sa!avidschool

/ut they reali"ed the dignity and the

importance o! a ,ne seat on a ,ne horse%and how well such a combination lent itsel!to pictorial eect

=Portrait o! Prince 3ara Shikoh on horseback>is the best e$ample o! such kind o! portraits

=Shah 2ahan 'iding with 3ara Shikoh>


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Shah 2ahan 'iding with 3araShikoh


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mperor Shah2ahan


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2ewel Portrait

2ahangir was the inventor o! theEewel portrait

#e used to make hiscourtiers wearminiatures o! himsel!% mounted as abrooch and attached to the !ront o!their turbans


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A rare li!e-si"e portrait o!the ughal mperor2ahangir

holding a globe% by Abu7l #asan%

?adir al-Gaman (dated 161H A3)


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depicting

the ughal

mperor 2ahangirand

the Sa!avid Shah

Abbas I and the&ualities

o! ughal-Sa!avid

'elations


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Portrait o! ughal mperor2ahangir7s invocation o!

a 3ua prayer


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2ahangir receives Prince.hurram on his return !rom the

3eccan (10 Jctober 161H)


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2ahangir in 3arbar% !romthe 2ahangir-nama% c

16;0 Kouache on paper


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Shah

2ahangir


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ethod and aterials

Tracing

Paper

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