Mughal Painting

Som Prakash Verma

Oxford India Short Introduction, 252 pages, Rs 325

The Mughal school is one of the richest and most productive in the history of Indian and Islamic painting. Its corpus assimilates traits from various schools of art that flourished in the Indian subcontinent, from Persian and Central Asian traditions, as well as from European Renaissance movements such as humanism. The author provides a detailed survey of paintings created in ateliers under the patronage of Mughal emperors in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and highlights the aesthetic and intellectual facets of Mughal painting.