The Benkaim collection will augment the museum’s strong but numerically limited holdings in Mughal painting. Quintanilla said she met Catherine Benkaim, who publishes her writings as Catherine Glynn, ...

Posthumous portrait of the Mughal emperor Muhammad Shah (r. 1719–48) holding a falcon, 1764. Muhammad Rizavi Hindi (Indian, active mid-1700s). Mughal, probably Lucknow. Opaque watercolor with gold on ...

For centuries in the Islamic world, books have been treasured as precious objects worthy of royal admiration. This was especially true for India’s Mughal emperors, who reigned over a vast and wealthy ...

If the Cleveland Museum of Art’s newest centennial exhibition doesn’t resonate with viewers, it won’t be because Sonya Rhie Quintanilla didn’t give it everything she had. Along with leading the charge ...

Time hasn't been kind to that artistic accomplishment. Of the tens of thousands of pages of exquisite calligraphy and illumination produced under Akbar, perhaps only 5 percent still exist, thanks to ...

Artists' signatures in miniatures of the Mughal school -- The Tulip (ca 1621) : a study by Mansur -- Problem of namesakes and their identity : Farrukh, Farrukh Kalan, Farrukh Khwurd, Farrukh Chela and ...

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 ...

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 ...

A tiny Indian painting from the 16th century measuring 29.8 cm in height and 18.6 cm in width has been sold for a mind-boggling 13.6 million dollars (about 120 crore rupees), creating a new world ...