Indian sculpture and painting, illustrated by typical masterpieces, with an explanation of their motives and ideals (1908)
Havell, E. B. (Ernest Binfield), 1861-1934 · London, J. Murray · leaf 325
, who took a most liberal and en-lightened view of art, permitted the representationof a human being, or of the Deity, in a mosqueor building consecrated to religion ; or attemptedto revive a school of religious painting. The ruleof the Sunna is scrupulously observed in thedecoration of the great… … MOGUL MINIATURE PAINTING 189 only a few fragments remaining of the decorationof Akbars palace at Fatehpur Sikri.^ Our present knowledge of Mogul painting isalmost entirely derived from the miniature pic-tures, painted on a very fine Indian or Chinesepaper, which in spite of the delicate material…
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