Temporal Jehangir Lithographs from India Persia had a constitutional revolution

Persia had a constitutional revolution and deposition of sorts in in the early 1900s

a brilliant young student of the artist Abu'l Hasan who became one of Shah Jahan's leading court artists was a prolific and all-encompassing painter capable of capturing a vast spectrum of complex subjects and elements

This style of portraiture

A painter which a penchant for ornamental styles employing flowers

Temporal Jehangir Lithographs from India Persia had a constitutional revolutionThis is a crop from a much larger painting of Jehangir holding a temporal astrolabe. The original was is perhaps the largest painting to have emerged from the Mughal period. The painting was created by Abu al Hasan who was the son of Aqa Reza (a leading artist of the Persian Safavid Court who later took employment under Jehangir) of Herat in Safavid Iran, a city with an artistic tradition. When Abu al Hasan began producing art a young age, the