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Hyderabad, the capital of Golconda, was a thriving centre for the arts in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when a confluence of international patrons and painters worked together to create manuscripts of Hindu, Mughal and Persian subjects, often illustrated in a flamboyantly eclectic style. ‘Khusrau hunting’ represents this style well. The subject is the ever-popular one of a princely or kingly hunt as a demonstration of the power and control over conquered lands. The source of the illustration is taken from the Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami, the famous twelfth-century Persian poet. In this version, Khusrau and his men exhibit a fascinating combination of Safavid attributes in a flamboyant Hyderabad painting style. The ruler’s men all wear late Safavid turbans and some, including Khusrau, sport moustaches, à la Shah 'Abbas I (r. 1587-1629 CE) and Shah 'Abbas II (r. 1642-66 CE), but the colourful, eclectic palette of the painting - note the mint-green landscape divided by mauve rock formations and lavish use of gold - reflects Hyderabad style</div>
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Hyberabadi miniature painting</div>
circa 1720 <div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1720-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902</div>-40
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