Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c11.86

c11.86

The style of the early Mogul paintings shows that a close observation of nature was not the practice of that school. Jahangir gives corroborative evidence of this in another passage, where he mentions that he had received a number of rare birds and animals from Goa, and ordered their actual likenesses to be drawn: