Mughal, c. 1570 / Alm Shah Closing the Dam at Shishan Pass / c. 1570

Mughal, c. 1570
Alm Shah Closing the Dam at Shishan Pass
c. 1570
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Creator Nationality: Asian; Indian Sub-Continent; Indian
Creator Name-CRT: Mughal, c. 1570
Title: Alm Shah Closing the Dam at Shishan Pass
Title Type: Primary
View: Full View
Creation Start Date: 1560
Creation End Date: 1580
Creation Date: c. 1570
Object Type: Paintings
Materials and Techniques: color and gold on paper
Dimensions: Image: 69cm x 52.2cm, Overall: 83.7cm x 67cm
AMICA Contributor: The Cleveland Museum of Art
Owner Location: Cleveland, Ohio, USA
ID Number: 1976.74
Credit Line: Gift of George P. Bickford
Rights: http://www.clemusart.com/museum/disclaim2.html
Context: The Dastan-i-Amir Hamza (Romance of Amir Hamza), popularly known as the Hamza Nama, is a text that deals in colorful terms with the many heroic adventures of Amir Hamza, a legendary uncle of the prophet Muhammad. Illustrating Hamza Nama, a favorite Islamic tale, was one of the main undertakings of the imperial studio set up by the greatest Mughal ruler, Akbar (ruled 1556-1605). Several Persian artists, along with artists working more in the native Indian tradition, contributed to this project. The text consisted of twelve volumes, each one numbering a hundred folios, and every folio was illustrated, as we learn from Akbar's biographer, Abul Fazl. The largest collections of pages from the Hamza Nama survive today in the Osterreichisches Museum fýr Angewandten Kunst in Vienna (about sixty pages) and in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London (twenty-five pages). The general style of painting in these pages is in the Persian miniature tradition, although the color, details of costume, and architecture areoften Indian. The tendency toward realism and the interest in the visual aspect of things, in which an attempt is made to place objects spatially, are Mughal inventions. They reflect the same characteristics expressed in the Mughal royal diaries, particularly the immense interest in firsthand observation of the surrounding world. S.C.
AMICA ID: CMA_.1976.74
AMICA Library Year: 1998
Media Metadata Rights: Copyright, The Cleveland Museum of Art

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