Hamzanama
About 1,400 large paintings on cloth: the project that forged the Mughal miniature school
- Author
- Mir Sayyid Ali, Abd al-Samad and Akbar's workshop
- Style
- Mughal Art — Persian garden, Timurid dome and Indian stone: paradise symmetry in white marble and red sandstone
- Century
- 16th century
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