The third suitor strikes the devotee’s daughter and thus restores her to life, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Twentieth Night
1560
unspecified
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
1560
unspecified
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
The third suitor strikes the devotee’s daughter and thus restores her to life, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Twentieth Night is a 1560 unspecified by Unknown, a Mughal Painting work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
You see a small, bright painting of three men standing over a woman lying on the ground. One man swings a stick at her while the others watch. This scene comes from a story told in Mughal India, where a doctor revives a woman by hitting her—believing she’s only in a deep sleep. The painting was made for Emperor Akbar’s court, where artists mixed Persian and Indian styles. The colors are vivid, and the figures look almost like paper cutouts. To see more art from this time, look up Mughal India, court of Akbar (reigned 1556–1605).
After the sudden, apparent death of the pious man’s daughter, her three suitors take her body from its grave. One of the suitors, a doctor, realizes that the woman is not dead and proposes flailing her to restore her consciousness. After she is successfully revived, the men resume their rivalry.
The stain above the painting is from the acidic green pigment used to paint a tree on the reverse.
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