Fayzullah
Active c. 1730–1765 · South Asian painting · 2 works
Fayzullah builds elaborate scenes within palaces, terraces and gardens. His figures occupy spaces filled with patterned surfaces and vivid color, while openings reveal activity farther away. One painting moves from bathing women to distant battlefields; another stages the arrival of a blindfolded suitor before a princess. Look at how architecture both separates the episodes and draws them into a continuous setting.
2 works · 1755–1765
Follow the steps, railings and openings from the nearest figures toward the distant background.
Basavana
The hunter offers the mother parrot to the king of Kamarupa, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Fifth Night, c. 1560
Basawan and Shankar
The Young Emperor Akbar Arrests the Insolent Shah Abu’l-Maali, Page from a Manuscript of the Akbarnama, Mughal dynasty (1526-1857), c. 1590-1595
Dasavanta
The Parrot Addresses Khujasta at the Beginning of the Sixth Night, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot), c. 1560
