While the Persians after the 1 3th century, and the Mughals in India, were not troubled overmuch by orthodox scruples forbidding the representation of living things, it resulted from the old Islamic Puri- tanism that their art became entirely secular. Relig- ious motifs from Islam are scarcely ever… … Theartofcalligraphy, or fair- writing, so longculti- vated by the Persians, was not less highly esteem- edatthe Mughal court. The emperors possessed im- portant librariesof earlier MSS. brought from Turke- stan, which they constantly enlarged by the addition of contemporary work. The earlier I ndo-…
Decorative arts · Art
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