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In a miniature of Humayun and Akbar, time crumples to depict an entire world of learning
In a miniature of Humayun and Akbar, time crumples to depict an entire world of learning
This meta-painting uses a paradox to provoke meditations on the relationship between image and illusion, representation and life. Akbar in a Tree-House. | Abd al-Samad, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
“If that sultan of the universe gives me Mir the painter,” said Humayun to Shah Tahmasp, “I shall send him from Hindustan one thousand tumans as a present.”
It was the summer of 1544. Driven out of his kingdom by Sher Shah Suri and betrayed by his own brothers, Humayun had taken one last gamble with fate and had come to the court of the Shah of Iran. He was a supplicant here, quietly enduring slights and affronts while hoping for military aid that would allow him to win back his kingdom.