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Write brief essay on Mughal painting

  • UPSC 2007
  • Culture during Mughal Empire

Rather than tracing Mughal painting reign by reign, it is more instructive to ask what made it a distinct "school" in the first place — a set of stylistic and organisational features that separated it from both the Persian tradition it emerged out of and the pre-existing Indian pictorial tradition it absorbed.

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  • Naturalism as a Break from Persian Convention
  • The Collaborative Atelier: Specialisation Inside a Single Sheet
  • Perspective: Persian Flatness against European Three-Dimensionality
  • Conclusion

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