Temporal Jehangir Frame:Stretched Canvas Aurangzeb or Alamgir was the

Aurangzeb or Alamgir was the last of the six great Mughals

An artist of extraordinary breadth

Apart from being the Emperor who culled the arts and destroyed temples we also remember him as the son who imprisoned his father and mutilated his brother in a bloody struggle of succession

Govardhan's most striking characterizations are intimate studies of holy men

Hindustan surpassed Qing China as the world's largest economy and biggest manufacturing power

Temporal Jehangir Frame:Stretched Canvas Aurangzeb or Alamgir was theThis 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