Drawing the likeness of anything is called ‘Taswir’. His Majesty from earliest
youth, has shown a great predilection for this art, and gives it every
encouragement, as he looks upon it as a means both of study and amusement. A
very large number of painters have been set to work.
Who is the writer? Who is here referred as ‘His Majesty’?
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iDrawing the likeness of anything is called taswir. His Majesty from his earliest youth has shown a great predilection for this art and gives it every encouragement as he looks upon it as a means both of study and amusement. iiA very large number of painters set to work. iiiEach week several supervisors and clerks of the imperial workshop submit before the emperor the work done by each artist and his Majesty gives a reward. ivPaintings served not only to enhance the beauty of a book but were believed to possess special powers of communicating ideas about the kingdom and the power of kings in ways that the written medium could not. vThe historian Abu’l Fazl described painting as a ‘magical art’ in his view it had the power to make inanimate objects look as if they possessed life.
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