Examine the interaction between the aesthetic values of East and West in the Mogul courts of India

What will be an ideal response?


The Mogul ruler Akbar urged his court artists to study Western art practices, as shown in the paintings and prints that the Portuguese brought beginning in the 1570s. They began by admiring genres such as the miniature and the portrait. Angels and cupids, Western inventions, began appearing in Mogul imagery.

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