1560
unspecified
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
The street cleaner, on his way to meet King Bhojaraja, sleeps under a tree where four thieves disguised as fellow travelers deprive him of a priceless pearl, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Twelfth Night is a 1560 unspecified by Unknown, a mughal_painting work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
A man naps under a tree while four thieves creep up to steal a pearl from his turban. The scene glows with tiny gold details and bright colors. This painting comes from a book of parrot tales made for Emperor Akbar. Indian and Persian artists worked together to create a new style—small, lively, and full of little stories. The emperor liked it so much he ordered bigger projects in the same style. To see more paintings like this, look up mughal india, court of akbar (reigned 1556–1605).
