Shah Mahal Analysis

Akbar’s son Jehangir took great interest in art. He loved painting and greatly appreciated the beauty of nature. During his time, the focus of the paintings became the incidents concerning court life and hunting scenes. The artists too became more specialized. Some artists painted only animals; some did only portraits, and some others were experts only in painting court scenes. These miniatures were also bound together during this time in big albums called the murraqas.
Jehangir was greatly influenced by the European style of painting which was more realistic, thus the brushwork in the paintings during his time became finer, the palette used by the painters became lighter and many portraits were painted. He preferred a single painter to work
Unless you’ve been living under a rock or something, you’d probably know the story behind the building of the great monument of love, Taj Mahal. Yes, there’s no way you can get this wrong! Shah Jahan built the Taj Mahal for his beloved wife Mumtaz Mahal. Shah Jahan was Jehangir’s son. When Jehangir’s health deteriorated, Shah Jahan took over the throne. Shah Jahan’s reign was a happy and prosperous one and it was an era of riches. During his reign most precious of stones were mined from India’s soil which could fill up trunks and trunks with emeralds, sapphires, rubies, diamonds and all sorts of other treasures.
He continued the patronage of paintings but was most celebrated for his architectural developments—he built the Taj Mahal as you know, his (and perhaps the country’s) best-known monument, the Jama Masjid and the Red Fort in the city of Shahjahanabad (or Old Delhi now), and a number of palaces and mosques throughout the country. He did continue with the miniature traditions of his father’s time—portraiture with illuminated borders continued to occupy much of the time of the court painters, for example—but he couldn’t manage to take the tradition forward. In fact, during his time, the miniature paintings showed the first signs of