"The Court of Ravana", Folio from a Ramayana
Unknown
ca. 1605 · Opaque watercolor and gold on paper · Islamic Art
The page comes from a copy of the Ramayana probably made for the Mughal courtier Bir Singh Deo of Datia. Inspired by fifteenth-century Indian and Persian painting, this folio is unique from the others in this manuscript. The array of demon courtiers attending the ten-headed demon-king Ravana come right out of Safavid paintings of divs, while the ornament of the pavilion resembles the Persian tile decoration found in paintings from Shiraz.
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- ca. 1605
- Medium
- Opaque watercolor and gold on paper
- Department
- Islamic Art
- Credit line
- Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon B. Polsky Fund, 2002
