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What features of European paintings were incorporated in the Mughal Miniature painting?

  • UPSC 2023
  • Culture during Mughal Empire

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European prints and paintings reached the Mughal atelier through Jesuit missions from 1580, Portuguese trade via Goa, and English embassies such as Sir Thomas Roe's mission to Jahangir — and out of this contact, Mughal painters absorbed a specific, identifiable set of features rather than European painting as a whole.

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  • Three-Dimensionality and Volumetric Modelling
  • Chiaroscuro — Light and Shade
  • Single-Point Linear Perspective
  • European Iconographic Motifs
  • A Concrete Measure of Technical Absorption: the Isaac Oliver Episode
  • What Was Not Incorporated
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