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106 - Late Mughal Empire Erotic Manuscript / Painting Inspired by the Kama Sutra - MA.106
Origin: India
Circa: 18
th
Century AD
to 19
th
Century AD
Collection: Erotic Art
Style: Mughal Period
Condition: Very Fine
£9,900.00
Location: Great Britain
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What is the importance of Kamasutra? It teaches you
how to achieve liberation Our Hindu culture believes
that kama or sex between consenting adults is very
important for a fulfilling life. If a person knows the art
of making love, it can lead him to the path of
spirituality and ultimate liberation.
Mughal painting is a particular style of South Asian
painting confined to miniatures either as book
illustrations or as single works to be kept in albums
(muraqqa). It emerged from Persian miniature
painting (itself partly of Chinese origin), and
developed largely in the court of the Mughal Empire
of the 16th to 18th centuries. The Mughal emperors
were Muslims and they are credited with
consolidating Islam in South Asia, and spreading
Muslim (and particularly Persian) arts and culture as
well as the faith.[1] Mughal painting immediately took
a much greater interest in realistic portraiture than
was typical of Persian miniatures. Animals and plants
were the main subject of many miniatures for albums,
and were more realistically depicted. Although many
classic works of Persian literature continued to be
illustrated, as well as Indian works, the taste of the
Mughal emperors for writing memoirs or diaries,
begun by Babur, provided some of the most lavishly
decorated texts, such as the Padshahnama genre of
official histories. Subjects are rich in variety and
include portraits, events and scenes from court life,
wild life and hunting scenes, and illustrations of
battles. The Persian tradition of richly decorated
borders framing the central image was continued, as
was a modified form of the Persian convention of an
elevated viewpoint. The Mughal painting style later
spread to other Indian courts, both Muslim and
Hindu, and later Sikh, and was often used to depict
Hindu subjects. This was mostly in northern India. It
developed many regional styles in these courts,
tending to become bolder but less refined. These are
often described as "post- Mughal", "sub-Mughal" or
"provincial Mughal". The mingling of foreign Persian
and indigenous Indian elements was a continuation of
the patronisation of other aspects of foreign culture
as initiated by the earlier Turko-Afghan Delhi
Sultanate, and the introduction of it into the
subcontinent by various Central Asian Turkish
dynasties, such as the Ghaznavids.
- (MA.106)
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