The deceitful wife assaults her erring husband, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night
1560
unspecified
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
1560
unspecified
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
You see a small, busy scene: a woman in a red dress swings a stick at a man on the floor, while neighbors peek through windows and doors. The story comes from a book of parrot tales told to delay a wife’s secret meetings. Here, the wife attacks her husband to hide her own cheating—irony in bright colors. To see more stories like this, look up mughal india, court of akbar (reigned 1556–1605).
