The parrot addresses Khujasta at the beginning of the thirty-first night, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot)
1560
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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 robe sitting on the floor, listening to a green parrot perched on a stand. The parrot is actually telling her a story—one of fifty-two moral tales meant to keep her from sneaking out at night. You can still spot the faint red and black lines the artist first drew, now peeking through worn paint on her face. To see more paintings like this, look up Mughal India, court of Akbar (reigned 1556–1605).
