1560
unspecified
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
You see a woman in a red dress bending over a sleeping man, blood dripping from her nose onto his clothes. This painting tells a wild story from a 16th-century Indian book called the *Tuti-nama*. The woman, Hamnaz, was caught in an affair—her lover bit off her nose as he died. Now she’s trying to frame her husband for the injury. The truth comes out when they find her nose in the dead man’s mouth. To see more stories like this, look up Mughal India, court of Akbar (reigned 1556–1605).
