Mughal and Rajput Painting

At the court of Akbar, Persian-trained masters and Indian painters created a new school of manuscript and album painting, joining Persian refinement to lively observation of people, animals and events. Under Jahangir and Shah Jahan, Mughal artists perfected the naturalistic portrait and the botanical study. In the Rajput kingdoms of Rajasthan and the Punjab Hills, painters answered with bold colour, flattened space and devotional images of Krishna and Radha.