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Mughal Painting and the Akbarnama: Miskina and Mukund

The South Asian rooms of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London revel in the rich splendour of Mughal painting, with its flattened perspectives, bustling locales, and bold colour palettes made up of scarlet reds and burnt oranges, amber yellows and golds, and subtly complementing shades of viridian green and Persian blue. The Mughal Empire stretched over the Indian subcontinent...