The Mughal emperors and their court historians wrote memoirs and chronicles that reveal how they thought about art, artists, and themselves. For unique insights into their worlds, listen to their writings and zoom into their paintings and manuscripts here.

Sa'di and the Youth of Kashgar

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Coronation of Sultan Husayn Mirza Bayqara

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Umar Arrives before the Castle of Antali

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Young Akbar Recognizes His Mother

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Da'ud Receives a Robe of Honor from Akbar's Vizier

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Krishna and the Golden City of Dwarka

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The World of Animals

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A Drunken Babur Returns to Camp at Night

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A Chained Elephant

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Jahangir Embracing Shah Abbas

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Jahangir Preferring a Sufi Shaykh to Kings

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Shah Shuja as a Child

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Front cover of the Gulshan Album

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Back cover of the Gulshan Album

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Folio from the Gulshan Album

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The Elderly Shah Jahan

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Humayun Seated in a Landscape

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Dara Shikoh Hunting Nilgae

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