A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c20.s2.122

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Passing on to the reigns of Aurangzēb (1658–1707) and his decadent successors during the eighteenth century, we find the artists still numerous and specimens of their work abundant. Although Aurangzēb was too zealous a puritan to care for art himself, the fashion set by his predecessors had not died out, and princes and nobles still kept court painters. During this period Hindu painters frequently quitted the traditional grooves of Indo-Persian art, and applied a modification of it to the illustration of their own mythology. Such Hinduized art is discussed more conveniently here than in Chapter IX, dealing with the later schools of Hindu painting.