History of India . ngir; and scenes of Christian hagiography werefavourite subjects with Moghul artists. The Anmm-ciation is believed to be depicted in a fresco at Path-pur-Sikri, while another strongly resembles the fall ofAdam. There are even traces of the work of Chineseartists in the Buddhist paintings in the Home ofDreams. Indeed this Indian Pompeii, with its uniqueand never iterative designs, is a museum of exquisiteesthetic genius. Akbars views on art were charac-teristic. One day he remarked to some friends: Thereare many that hate painting, but such men I appears to me as i
History of India . ngir; and scenes of Christian hagiography werefavourite subjects with Moghul artists. The Anmm-ciation is believed to be depicted in a fresco at Path-pur-Sikri, while another strongly resembles the fall ofAdam. There are even traces of the work of Chineseartists in the Buddhist paintings in the Home ofDreams. Indeed this Indian Pompeii, with its uniqueand never iterative designs, is a museum of exquisiteesthetic genius. Akbars views on art were charac-teristic. One day he remarked to some friends: Thereare many that hate painting, but such men I appears to me as if a painter had quite peculiarmeans of recognizing God; for a painter, in sketching 38 AKBAES REFORMS anything that has life, and in devising its limbs oneafter the other, must come to feel that he cannot be-stow personality upon his work, and is thus forced tothink of Grod, the giver of life, and will thus increasein knowledge. He had always been fond of painting,and kept a niunber of painters at court, whose work. THE TdEKISH sultanas HOUSE, FATHPUR - SIKEI. was displayed before him every week. Hence theart flourishes, wrote Abu-1-Fazl, and many paintershave obtained great reputations, while masterpiecesworthy of [the famous Persian court painter] Bahzadmay be placed beside the wonderful works of the Eu-ropean painters who have attained world-wide minuteness in detail, the general finish, the bold-ness of execution, and the like, now observed in pic-tures, are incomparable. This was written in Akbars AKBAES DEEAM OF A WOELD - KELIGION 39 lifetime, and it is noteworthy that the historian dis-tinguishes the Hindu painters as the best among thehundred famous masters of the age, though he mentionssome great artists from Persia. In this fairy city Akbars dream of a universal relig-ion grew into deflLnite shape. It was in the Hall ofWorship that he sought wearily to eUcit truth fromthe debates of professors. The unity that had existedamong the learned, says Blochmann, disa
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