Mughal School of Painting

Mughal School of Painting: The Mughal School of Painting represents one of the most significant phases of Indian art. Mughal painting was largely influenced by the Persian School of Painting, which again was an amalgam of the Chinese, the Indian, the Buddhist, the Bactrian and the Mongolian influences. The Mughal School of Painting is broadly represented in two forms- the portraiture and miniature in the form of book illustrations, in which the Mughal painters gained the greatest perfection. This school was broadly aristocratic, divorced from social realities and the masses, and it remained confined to the corridors of the Mughal … Continue reading Mughal School of Painting