Mughal painting- ancient painting of India

Indian painting:India is the country of color.they have different culture in different part of the country.Mughal paintings are the anciant paintings of Indian culture.These ancient paintings is a sample of mughal period art.This folio has come from a copy of the Mahabharata (known in Persian as the Razmnama) made for ^cAbd al-Rahim ibn Muhammad Khan-i Khanan, army commander to Akbar and then Jahangir.

Mughal painting-Indian Painting: ancient painting of India

The Mahabharata is the story of the legendary war between the clans of the Kauravas and the Pandyas. The scene depicted here is the Battle of Arjuna and Raja Tamradhvaja. The painting cycle in ^cAbd al-Rahim's book is the same as in Akbar's, and the large blocks of text that form part of the picture frame reflect the practice of the imperial atelier at that time.


The Hamzanama tells the fantastic story of Hamza, an uncle of the Prophet, who traveled the world spreading the teachings of Islam. The story was a popular subject for public recitation in coffeehouses, so exciting and full of fantastic elements were the tales. The young emperor Akbar commissioned an illustrated version of the manuscript consisting of 1,400 large illustrations, each over two feet tall, with text on the reverse to aid in recitation. It was the earliest and most ambitious product of the royal painting atelier, and its paintings betray an early fusion of Persian and local Indian styles

Mughal painting-Indian Painting: ancient painting of India