Basawan — 3D Virtual Museum

Walk through a virtual gallery hung with 13 works by Basawan.

• Basawan: Mihrdukht aims her arrow at the ring
• The hunter offers the mother parrot to the king of Kamarupa, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Fifth Night
• The hunter throws away the baby parrots, who pretend to be dead, and captures the mother, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Fifth Night, Basawan
• The donkey, in a tiger’s skin, reveals his identity by braying aloud, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Thirty-first Night, Basawan
• A feast for Babur hosted by his half-brother Jahangir Mirza in Ghazni in May 1505, from a Babur-nama (Memoirs of Babur), Basawan
• Akbar visits the tomb of Khwajah Mu'in ad-Din Chishti at Ajmer – oil painting reproduction by Basawan
• The Young Emperor Akbar Arrests the Insolent Shah Abu’l-Maali, page from a manuscript of the Akbarnama – oil painting reproduction by Basawan
• The Virgin and Child by Basawan
• The siege of Arbela in the era of Hulagu Khan, from a Chingiz-nama (Book of Chingiz Khan) of the Jami al-tavarikh (Compendium of Chronicles) of Rashid al-Din (Persian, 1247–1318)
• Page from Tales of a Parrot (Tuti-nama): text page – oil painting reproduction by Basawan
• Page from Tales of a Parrot (Tuti-nama): text page – oil painting reproduction by Basawan
• A Mughal and a Rajput Converse at Dusk by Basawan
• The Origin of Music: Page from a Tutinama Manuscript – oil painting reproduction by Basawan