Painting, opaque watercolour and gold on paper, a portrait of Emperor Babur, seated on a white dari placed on an arabesque carpet which covers a stone terrace. He wears a long coat (jama) …

Portrait of the Mughal emperor Babur; single-page painting on detached album folio. Idealised portrait of the ruler, seated on chair reading book. Marginal inscription identifies figure as …

The dynasty founded by Babur, the Mughal dynasty, ruled over the greatest Islamic state of the Indian subcontinent. As a youth, Babur, a prince of the house of Timur , was unable to …

This literary anthology opens with a painting by the renowned fifteenth-century Persian artist Bihzad. The painter, who achieved legendary acclaim, worked at the court of Babur’s …

It depictsthe Mughal emperor Babur (1483–1530) superintending the laying-out of the Garden of Fidelity at Kabul in the northern reaches of the Mughal empire, now in Afghanistan. Originally …

A century after Babur’s death, however, his descendants—the Mughal emperors of India—began to celebrate his legacy in art and literature. This portrait, made for Babur’s great-great …

The flat panels of decoration and minutely patterned surfaces are typical of Persian painting. The roughly painted melons at the foot of Babur’s throne may have been added by another artist, …

2013年3月8日 · Portrait of Emperor Babur (1483-1530) - India - about 1640 (central painting) - Payag (?) - Louvre - OA 7156.jpg 2,668 × 3,806; 1.51 MB

Babur loved gardens and built them in each new outpost of his empire. This first painting depicts a type of garden well known to Babur: a geometric arrangement of waterways, cultivated plots, …

Over the course of his extraordinary life, he wrote a memoir known as the Baburnama, weaving incisive observations on art and nature into recollections of love, war, and political alliances. …