Muhammad Sharif is one of those Mughal-court figures who’s easy to overlook precisely because his day job wasn’t really painting — it was administration. But he came up through one…

Miskin was a renowned Mughal court painter active roughly between 1560 and 1604. He worked in the imperial atelier of Akbar, specialising in naturalistic depictions of animals and human figures…

The artist who shaped visual culture in twentieth-century Tamil Nadu. Born as P.M. Sreenivasan on 19 January 1919, he took the name Silpi over a career spent producing line drawings…