Babur and Humayun Medium:Archival Paper Shah Jahan chose to link

Shah Jahan chose to link these symbols of peace and justice with divine sanction for his rule

Jehangir (then Salim) was the son who waged a rebellion and towards the end of Akbar’s reign declared himself emperor and set up court at Allahabad

The present work’s provenance is currently being studied

but those that identify him as the artist show that he also worked on a range of subjects

was commonly produced and suggests that artists felt that this was the most appropriate type of pictorial format to depict the elderly ruler

Babur and Humayun Medium:Archival Paper Shah Jahan chose to linkHere we see the first Mughal emperor, Babur, who reigned from 1526 to 1530, is shown seated on the right with his son and successor, Humayun. Ousted from his brief control of Ferghana, and eastern territory of Iran, Babur swept down on northern India at a time of political weakness there to establish the beginnings of a great empire. Such posthumous family portraits were painted to recall the glory of the first Mughal emperors and to assert a ruler's