Mughal Painting Shah Jahan

Form Darbar Scenes - Ebba Portrait Scenes of just hte Meperor Naturalistic Atmosphere works - more historical scenes all going ot show Shah Jahan's self image of control

2 main themes in his art

Darshun - gain access to emperor and hears you and sees you - filling in your rank

Darbars

- most powerful person on the top of the piece of painting - he has specific rules of how art was created - absolute control of pictorial world - self- image control and lasting memorial of his fame, and evidence of his legitmacy

Ebba Koch - symmetry and hierarchy

the order and the pectoral representation of order is a mechanism to demonstrate his imperial ideology lasting fame and legacy

Imperial Ideology

Allegorical flora and fauna brought in for realistic images made - turkey imported for cataloguing showing the organization of his empire

Jahangiri Period

Scenes of symmetrical - corporate identity - claiming order - mansabdari system - formalized for his power, less dependent on sage wisdom of sufi saints

Jaroka

akbar starts it and he reforms it, it was takign 80% of the crown

masabdari system

Profile for group Portraiture - submit the individual to the super imposed system - not to show their character, but to identity them - formal and no exchange of gaze with view

Profile

the artistic form was methodically manipulated for non-artistic aims

Shah Janhani Art

frontal setting and profile people with naturalistic interested in flora nad flauna - He has his world ordered in a real way to be seen in the naturalism of his paintings

Shah Janhani Composition