There are a number of fine portraits of Akbar, but it was under his successors
Jahangir and Shah Jahan that the portrait of the ruler became firmly established as a leading subject in Indian miniature painting, which was to spread to both Muslim and Hindu princely courts across India.
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Mughal painting - Wikipediaing discussed were. Many of them, like medieval European images of saints, carried objects associated with them to help identification, but otherwise the figures stand on a plain background.[5] <span>There are a number of fine portraits of Akbar, but it was under his successors Jahangir and Shah Jahan that the portrait of the ruler became firmly established as a leading subject in Indian miniature painting, which was to spread to both Muslim and Hindu princely courts across India.[6] From the 17th century equestrian portraits, mostly of rulers, became another popular borrowing from the West.[7] Another new type of image showed the Jharokha Darshan (literally "bal Summary
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