Temporal Jehangir Lithographs from India the emperor

the emperor

The young prince Khusrau displayed exceptional skills and wisdom and had the privilege to be groomed by the Mughal Emperor Akbar himself for the throne of the Mughal Empire

This was when artists found a prominent position in the court and new styles and themes were incorporated

Persia had a constitutional revolution and deposition of sorts in in the early 1900s

the world shall tremble

Temporal Jehangir Lithographs from India the emperorThis is a crop from a much larger painting of Jehangir holding a temporal astrolabe. The original was is perhaps the largest painting to have emerged from the Mughal period. The painting was created by Abu al Hasan who was the son of Aqa Reza (a leading artist of the Persian Safavid Court who later took employment under Jehangir) of Herat in Safavid Iran, a city with an artistic tradition. When Abu al Hasan began producing art a young age, the