The Parrot Addresses Khujasta at the Beginning of the Thirteenth Night, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot)
1560
unspecified
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
1560
unspecified
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
You see a woman in a red dress sitting on a carpet, a green parrot perched on a stand beside her, talking. This painting comes from a book of stories told by a parrot to delay a woman’s secret meeting. The tiny details—embroidery on her sleeve, the parrot’s feathers—show how carefully the artist worked. It’s like a snapshot from a royal Indian court in the 1500s. If you like this, look up *mughal india, court of akbar (reigned 1556–1605)*.
