A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c20.s1.8
A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c20.s1.8
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The proper subject of this chapter, the Indo-Persian school, invites discussion at such length that we cannot linger over its remoter sources, and must pass on to bestow a few words upon the two masters more directly connected with Akbar’s innovation in India, namely, Bihzād of Herāt and his pupil Agā (Aqā) Mīrak of Tabrīz. Good examples of the work of both are to be seen in London. The professional ancestry of Bihzād, who was alive in 1524, and was praised by his contemporary, the gallant and artistic Bābar, is traced back, through Pīr Saīyid Ahmad of Tabrīz, and Ustād Jahāngīr of Bukhārā, to a dumb artist known as Ustād Gung, or ‘the dumb Master’.