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The Parrot Addresses Khujasta at the Beginning of the Seventeenth Night, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot)

The Parrot Addresses Khujasta at the Beginning of the Seventeenth Night, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot)

Sravana

1560

unspecified

From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art

company_painting Renaissance Renaissance

About this work

You see a woman sitting on a patterned rug, listening to a green parrot perched on a stand. The room is simple—flat walls, soft colors, no deep shadows. This painting comes from a book of parrot tales told to delay a wife’s secret meeting. The style is older than the famous Mughal miniatures that followed; it feels quieter, almost like a storybook page. To see how painting changed under Akbar, look up *mughal india, court of akbar (reigned 1556–1605)*.

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