{[Islamic Art –] Visual Arts [continued –] Late Period of Islamic Art [continued (8)]}[20th April 1991]

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‘Mughal portraiture* gave more of a sense of the individual than did the portraiture of the Safavids. As in a celebrated representation of a dying courtier in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Mughal drawings could be poignantly naturalistic. Mood was important to the Mughal artists – in many paintings of animals there is a playful mood; a sensuous mood is evident in the first Muslim images to glorify the female body and the erotic.’

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*which ‘was intimately connected to the indigenous Hindu traditions of the Indian sub-continent...’

– ibid [Encyclopaedia Britannica 22:98]

** – ibid [Encyclopaedia Britannica 22:98]

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