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

  • UPSC 2023
  • Culture during Mughal Empire

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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