Nanha
Illustration — Self-portrait (detail; see below) • Illustration — Camel fight, a copy by Nanha of a work by Bihzad. Nanha (Persian: نانها, Nānhā), also called Nanah or Nana, was an Indian painter and illuminator of the Mughal era, active during the reigns of emperors Akbar the Great, Jahangir and Shah Jahan.
Nanha
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Illustration — Self-portrait (detail; see below) • Illustration — Camel fight, a copy by Nanha of a work by Bihzad. Nanha (Persian: نانها, Nānhā), also called Nanah or Nana, was an Indian painter and illuminator of the Mughal era, active during the reigns of emperors Akbar the Great, Jahangir and Shah Jahan.
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• Illustrations in a MS. of the Dārābz-nāma ('Story of Darab'), c. 1580 (London, BL, Or. MS. 4615); • Illustrations in a MS. of the Razm-nāma ('Books of war'), 1582–6 (Jaipur, Maharaja Sawai Man Singh II Museum, MS. AG. 1683–1850); • Illustrations for a translation of the Mahābhārata commissioned by Akbar; • Illustrations in a MS. of the Tārīkh-i Khāndān-i Tīmūriyya ('History of the house of Timur'), c. 1584 (Bankipur, Patna, Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Library); • Illustrations, including portraits, in the Victoria and Albert Akbarnama ('History of Akbar'), c. 1590 (London, Victoria & Albert Museum, MS. IS. 2–1896); • One painting (attributed) in Akbar's copy of the Dīvān ('collected poems') of Anvari, 1588 (Cambridge, MA, Sackler Museum, MS. 1960.117.15) • Four illustrations in a MS. of the Khamsa ('Five poems') of Nizami, 1595 (London, BL, Or. MS. 12208, fols 63v, 159r, and 305v) • Signed work (Baltimore, MD, Walters Art Museum, MS. W.613, fol. 16v); • Painting in a MS. of the Jahāngīr-nāma ('History of Jahangir'), c. 1618 (London, Victoria & Albert Museum, MS. IS. 185–1984), includes a self-portrait (shown above right); • Portrait of Zulfiqar Khan in the Minto Album, c. 1635 (London, Victoria & Albert Museum); • Portrait of Sayf Khan Barha (New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 55.121.10.4v); • Perils of the Hunt (Free Library of Philadelphia), painted atypically on silk, exemplifies Nanha's penchant for ravening lions.
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Nanha / Mir Ali Heravi · This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. See the Image and Data Resources Open Access Policy
Album leaf; Codices
Nanha / Mir Ali Heravi · This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. See the Image and Data Resources Open Access Policy
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- 1.Beach 1978, p. 150
- 2.Seyller 2003.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 5
- Beach, Milo Cleveland. The Grand Mogul: Imperial Painting in India, 1600–1660. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. 34, 64, 74, 76, 93, 108, 109, 140, 147ff, 150–51. 1978.
- Oxford University Press. Nanha [Nānhā]. The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture. 2009.
- Oxford University Press. Nanha. Benezit Dictionary of Asian Artists. 2012.
- Seyller, J. Nanha [Nānhā]. Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. 2003. 978-1-884446-05-4.
- Oxford Art Online. Nanha or Nanah or Nana. Benezit Dictionary of Artists. 31 October 2011. 978-0-19-977378-7.
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