The Parrot Addresses Khujasta at the Beginning of the Seventh 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
The Parrot Addresses Khujasta at the Beginning of the Seventh Night, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot) is a 1560 unspecified by Unknown, a mughal_painting work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
A bright green parrot perches on a stand, talking to a woman in a red robe. She leans in, listening closely. This painting comes from a book of 52 stories—one for each night. The parrot tells tales to keep the woman from sneaking out to meet her lover. The artist mixed older Indian styles with new Mughal details, like the delicate patterns on her clothes. To see more paintings like this, look up mughal india, court of akbar (reigned 1556–1605).
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