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Jain Ascetic Walking Along a Riverbank, Basavana
Jain Ascetic Walking Along a Riverbank, c. 1600

Basavana

Active c. 1560–1600 · South Asian painting · 4 works

Basavana, also spelled Basawan, was the most prestigious and influential artist in Akbar’s painting workshop between 1560 and 1605. Akbar’s biographer Abu’l Fazl judged him uniquely excellent in design, color and portraiture. His earliest known paintings are in the Tales of a Parrot of about 1560, and he did much to shape the Mughal style. His son Manohar also painted.

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4 works · 1555–1595

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Artist information: Cleveland Museum of Art (The Cleveland Museum of Art Presents: Art and Stories from Mughal India, The monkey slain, from a Tuti-nama, A holy man prostrating himself before a learned prince (Manohar), Jain Ascetic Walking Along a Riverbank).

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