Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c11.2

c11.2

WE have seen in the last chapter that even in the pre-Mogul period the art of painting was cultivated as a *dilettante* amusement or accomplishment in the courts of Buddhist and Hindu sovereigns, but it was not until the Mogul times that a distinctly secular school of painting, derived originally from Persia, arose in India. In this secularisation of art the Mogul epoch in India may be compared with the Renaissance in Europe.