Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c11.35

c11.35

The Calcutta Art Gallery has, however, some paintings belonging to the Persian school of the early sixteenth century which show that by that time the true spirit of Indian art had begun to assert itself in the Muhammadan world. In the picture of a music party at the Court of Sultan Muhammad Tughlak, painted by Shapur, of Khorrasan in 1534, Plate LIV., we feel again the simple delight in the beauty of Nature, and the whole-hearted desire to be one with it, which breathe in the paintings of Ajanta and the [Figure: PLATE VII