The parrot addresses Khujasta at the beginning of the forty-fourth 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
A woman in a pink robe sits under a tree, listening to a green parrot perched on a branch. Bright flowers and rolling hills fill the background. This scene is from a *Tuti-nama*, a book of stories told by a clever parrot to keep his owner from sneaking out at night. The soft colors and flat shapes come from an older Indo-Persian style, before Mughal artists added more depth. To see more art like this, look up mughal india, court of akbar (reigned 1556–1605).
