A book of illustrations painted in the 1840s captures the Indian capital, Delhi, in all its glory shortly before the 19th Century's biggest anti-colonial revolt - and the British bombardment, looting ...

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 ...

These phantasmagorical images from the book Flora and Fauna in Mughal Art depict 16th-18th century patchwork amalgams of man and beast made of smaller creatures. These creatures are like the aesthetic ...

India’s Mughal emperors, who reigned over a vast and wealthy empire that extended over most of the South Asian subcontinent between the 16th and 19th centuries, were passionate about lavish ...

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 ...

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, ...