Artist

Banwari the Younger

Banwari the Younger is a Mughal Painting artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum.

Banwari the Younger’s tiny paintings pack big surprises. This 16th-century artist hid little villages inside golden borders, each house a dot, every street a line. He loved blue: not flat blue, but layered, like the sky at dusk.

His 1598 Untitled piece shows a whole town in a palm-sized panel, try counting the doors. You’ll need a magnifying glass. Gallery Tiles keeps his work around so you can zoom in on those blue shadows and wonder why someone made a world so small yet so alive.

Works by Banwari the Younger

Collections represented

Catalog records compiled from museum open-access collections; the artworks shown are in the public domain. Spotted an error in this record? Tell us.