Indian and Southeast Asian Art

3,314 artworks

The prince, once reprieved, is returned to the palace of execution a second time on the plea of the king’s handmaiden, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night

Gujarati (Indian, active 1550s-1590s), 1555

The parrot brings a fruit from the Tree of Life to the king of Syria, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Ninth Night

Lalu (Indian, active mid-1500s), 1555

The deceitful wife assaults her erring husband, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night

Tara 1 (Indian, active 1550s-1590s), 1555

The monk returns the magic parrot to its rightful owner, the merchant, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Tenth Night

Lalu (Indian, active mid-1500s), 1555

The donkey, in a tiger’s skin, reveals his identity by braying aloud, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Thirty-first Night

Basavana (Indian, active c. 1560–1600), 1555

Calligraphic exercises and verses of Hafiz (Persian, about 1325–1389) (verso)

Mahmud ibn Ishaq al-Shahabi (Persian, active mid- to late 1500s), 1575

A mendicant bowing before a holy man, from the Prince Salim Album

Basavana (Indian, active c. 1560–1600), 1580

A holy man prostrating himself before a learned prince

Manohar (Indian, active late 1500s), 1580

A feast for Babur hosted by his half-brother Jahangir Mirza in Ghazni in May 1505, from a Babur-nama (Memoirs of Babur)

Basavana (Indian, active c. 1560–1600), 1584

Portrait of Maharaja Rai Singh of Bikaner (reigned 1574-1612)

Nur Muhammad (Indian, active c. 1580–1630), 1585

Layla and Majnun in the wilderness with animals, from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Amir Khusrau Dihlavi

Sanwalah (Indian, active c. 1580–1600), 1590

Calligraphy

Basavana (Indian, active c. 1560–1600), 1591

The siege of Arbela in the era of Hulagu Khan, from a Chingiz-nama (Book of Chingiz Khan) of the Jami al-tavarikh (Compendium of Chronicles) of Rashid al-Din (Persian, 1247–1318)

Basavana (Indian, active c. 1560–1600), 1591

Hulagu Khan giving a feast and dispensing favor upon the amirs and princes, from a Chingiz-nama (Book of Chingiz Khan) of the Jami al-tavarikh (Compendium of Chronicles)

Lal (Indian, active c. 1555–1600), 1591

The siege of Arbela in the era of Hulagu Khan, page from a Chingiz-nama (Book of Chingiz Khan) of the Jami al-tavarikh (Compendium of Chronicles) of Rashid al-Din (Persian,1247–1318)

Basavana (Indian, active c. 1560–1600), 1591

The game of wolf-running in Tabriz, from an Akbar-nama (Book of Akbar)

Banavari 1 (Indian, active 1550s-1590s), 1595

A Mounted Prince Hunting Lion in a Rocky Landscape

Khem Karan (Indian), 1595

Portrait of Suraj Singh Rathor, Raja of Marwar and Maternal Uncle of Shah Jahan: A Page from the Prince Khurram Album

Bishandas (Indian, active c. 1610–30), 1595

Jain Ascetic Walking Along a Riverbank

Basavana (Indian, active c. 1560–1600), 1595

Akbar supervising the capture of wild elephants at Malwa in 1564, painting 90 from an Akbar-nama (Book of Akbar) of Abu’l Fazl (Indian 1551–1602)

Farukh Chela (Indian), 1596

Akbar supervising the capture of wild elephants at Malwa in 1564, painting 90 from an Akbar-nama (Book of Akbar) of Abu’l Fazl (Indian 1551–1602)

Farukh Chela (Indian), 1597

Timur distributes gifts from his grandson, the Prince of Multan, from a Zafar-nama (Book of Victories)

Shravana (Indian, active 1550s–c.1600), 1598

Yaja and Upayaja perform a sacrifice for the emergence of Dhrishtadyumna from the fire, from Adi-parva (volume one) of the Razm-nama (Book of Wars) adapted and translated into Persian by Mir Ghiyath al-Din Ali Qazvini, known as Naqib Khan (Persian, d. 1614) from the Sanskrit Mahabharata

Bilal Habshi (probably Ethiopian, active late 1500s), 1598

A Courtier, Possibly Khan Alam, Holding a Spinel and a Deccan Sword

Govardhan (Indian, active c.1596–1645), 1600