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The Mughal emperor, haloed by sun and moon, hands a book to a Sufi holy man while kings and the artist himself wait below. Bichitr packs the miniature with dazzling symbolism of the spiritual over the worldly.
Jahangir Preferring a Sufi Shaikh to Kings
- Datec. 1620
- MovementMughal painting
- WhereFreer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
- RegionUnited States