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| Keywords: Emperor Shah Jahan, 1628.jpg en The emperor sits in haloed profile upon a gold-footed throne under a high white canopy flanked by his three young princes who stand on the left All are resplendent with opulently bejewelled turbans necklaces qatar daggers and sashes patkas against a rounded backdrop of turquoise perhaps suggesting a globe as golden light appears on the right The inscription on this Mughal painting identifies it as a portrait of emperor Jahangir and his three sons but what we see today are the faces of Shah Jahan r 1628-57 CE and his three eldest sons - Dara Shikoh 1615-59 CE Shah Shuja' 1616-59 CE and Awrangzeb 1618-1707 CE - and their maternal grandfather Asaf Khan on the right It was not unusual for the Mughals to refurbish earlier works for propaganda reasons The inscription at bottom left reads work of the most humble of the house born Manohar Sheila Canby notes that the painting is characteristic of Manohar ™s style from about 1615 CE except for the refurbished faces and that the composition follows the conventions of intimate royal portraits from Akbar ™s reign which under Jahangir and Shah Jahan in the 1610s “1620s developed to include a more psychological focus Period Mughal circa 1628 CE or later http //www columbia edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00routesdata/1600_1699/shahjahan/drawings/drawings html Mughal PD-Art Uploaded with UploadWizard 17th-century Mughal miniatures Watercolor paintings of men of India Dara Shikoh 1620s paintings from India Processional canopies Paintings of Shah Jahan Abdul Hasan Asaf Khan Paintings of Aurangzeb Manohar | ||||
