Hamzanama
1570
paint
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1570
paint
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Hamzanama is a 1570 paint by Unknown, a Mughal Painting work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This painting shows a wild scene with bright colors. A hero on horseback fights a dragon-like monster. Other fighters stand nearby, some with spears. Artists used gold and bright paints to make it feel magical. They stretched the story across many pages like a comic book. The scenes mix real people with fantasy creatures. Look up the Victoria and Albert Museum to see more like this.
The painting, executed in gouache on cotton, illustrates the death of Hamza, a figure loosely based on a historical Iranian leader and the uncle of the Prophet Muhammad, who perished in battle at Mount Uhud. Within an enclosed space marked by embroidered screens, a bearded man in a green and gold robe and turban sits on a throne, while attendants present a young woman in a flowered blue choli and a high-ranking man bearing a white scarf. Above them, in a cave, lies Hamza’s decapitated body in an orange robe, with a dagger in his girdle, surrounded by the remnants of a disrupted feast, while…
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