Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c11.21

c11.21

The artists of this new Iranian school of painting, revived by an infusion of Indian art-traditions naturalised in China, were the court painters of Babar, the first Mogul Emperor of India, who thus brought them back to the fountain-head of their art. But Mogul painting was, unlike Indian, a purely secular school. The general ban of the fine arts imposed by Islamic law was not entirely removed even by the Mogul emperors, and it continued to have full effect as far as religious art was concerned.