[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Architecture and art](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art) › [Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908) › c7.56 # Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c7.56 Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c7.56 - **Language:** English ### [c7.56](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c7.56) The great period of the secular schools of Indian painting was under the Mogul emperors of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. At this time India again became the art-centre of Asia. The religious zeal of the Sunni sects of Muhammadans, and the partiality for whitewash as an artistic process affected by most Anglo- Indians, have destroyed nearly all traces of the fresco paintings which covered the walls of the Mogul palaces and villas. The best artistic records of this time now extant are the exquisite miniature paintings which were highly prized by the cultured \*dilettanti\* of the Mogul Court. With songs, music, and impromptu Persian sonnets, the odes of Sa‘di and Hafiz, or the effusions of the Court poets, they served to while away many an idle hour in the luxurious palaces of the Great Mogul, and in the elegant villas of his nobles. - [Previous: c7.55](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c7.55) - [Next: c7.57](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c7.57) - [Up: c7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c7) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c7.56](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.havell-1908.c7.56) · Pramāṇa