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Jeweled Gardens

AMONG DRAWINGS FROM the Middle East we find exquisite paper is brimming with the beauty and celebration of nature,
stylization of form and upright formality in pictorial space. urgent attentive human activity, and miraculous growth.
The first Mughal Emperor Babur's Garden of Fidelity (Bagh-e
Vaja), which he personally created near Kabul, Afghanistan, Opposite is the Rose of Mohammed; the sumptuous petals
in the early 16th century, is remembered in the pages of his permeated with prayer and wisdom. Drawing, painting, and
journal. Below, in miniature, Babur directs his gardeners in calligraphy are brought together to hold the sacred names of
the design and planting of this quartered chahar bagh. Envoys prophets and the 99 beautiful names of God. By Muslim
chatter outside the gate, anticipating their view. Every fiber of tradition, roses took their form in a bead of perspiration on the
brow of Mohammed as he passed through his heavenly journey.

BISHNDAS AND NANHA Bright pigment These pages were illuminated by Mughal Babur Supervising Out
Little is known of these Mughal painters who were artists in the late 16th century. They used a fine brush to
related as uncle and nephew and commissioned lay pigment over a line drawing. The white of the page shines of the Garden of Fidelity
to illustrate the pages of Babur's journal. Bishndas through the brilliant color. Upright shallow perspectives, c. 1590
was probably responsible for the overall design, and fluctuations in scale, uniform focus, and attention to detail 85/8 x55/8in (219 x 1 4 4 mm)
Nanha, a notable portrait painter drew the faces. are all shared with medieval European manuscript drawings. BISHNDAS AND NANHA