Payag

Payag was a major Indian Hindu artist of Mughal painting, in the 17th century.[1] He was noted for the dark realism of his paintings, including portraits of holy men and wounded soldiers, describing the horrors of war.[1]

Payag worked for several Mughal rulers, including emperors Akbar, Jahangir, and Shah Jahan. His career lasted about 70 years. He had a brother named Balchand, also a talented painter.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b c Welch, Stuart Cary (1985). India: art and culture, 1300-1900. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art : Holt, Rinehart, and Winston. p. 248. ISBN 978-0030061141. If Murad's siege raised the spirits of his imperial patron, Payag's view of an episode in 1649, during the unsuccessful attempts to recapture strategic Kandahar must have lowered them. Although Murad was noted for his cheerful portrayals of grand events at court-and, we suspect, as a designer of architectural ornament, which he painted so inventively-Payag is admired for portraits of holy men and ravaged old soldiers, and for views of war in all its horror.
  2. ^ "Painting by Payag - "Shah Jahan on Horseback", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album - The Metropolitan Museum of Art". www.metmuseum.org.
  3. ^ "Painting by Payag - "Shah Jahan on Horseback", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album - The Metropolitan Museum of Art". www.metmuseum.org.
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