{"id":374239,"date":"2026-10-22T14:48:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T09:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=374239"},"modified":"2026-10-22T14:48:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T09:18:07","slug":"basawan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/basawan\/","title":{"rendered":"Basawan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content-box-green\">\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong> A Mughal painting of a cheetah family, created by Basawan around 1575 under Akbar, sold for nearly \u20b9120 crore in London.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"red-h2-box\">About Basawan<\/h2>\n<figure style=\"width: 231px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQeAis8lNtiJhbF3WA4LVDsel7HVOhILCkXmQDh8cEo6g&amp;s=10\" alt=\"Basawan \" width=\"231\" height=\"357\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: TOI<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Basavan<\/strong> was an <strong>renowned <span id=\"ref82892\"><\/span>Mughal painter.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>He <strong>flourished during 16th century. <\/strong>He was a <strong>leading painters in Emperor Akbar\u2019s court.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Painting style:<\/strong> His <strong>work is largely associated with innovation and expressive figures. <\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>He was highly regarded for his skill as a <strong>designer, colourist, and observer of human nature.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>His work appears in numerous <strong>significant manuscripts, including the <em>Akbar-n\u0101meh<\/em>, the <em>Razm-n\u0101meh<\/em> (a Persian version of the <em>Mahabharata<\/em>), and the <em>T\u012bm\u016br-n\u0101meh<\/em> (a chronicle of the Mughal ancestor Timur).\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Famous work:<\/strong> One of his most celebrated work is <strong>&#8220;A Family of Cheetahs in a Rocky Landscape&#8221;<\/strong> which is a Mughal painting <strong>created around 1575\u201380 during Emperor Akbar\u2019s reign.<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It was<strong> painted on cloth<\/strong> and <strong>depicts a family of cheetahs in their natural surroundings,<\/strong> reflecting the Mughal interest in wildlife and realistic animal studies.<\/li>\n<li>His works<strong> later became part of notable art collections,<\/strong> including that of Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan and Princess Catherine Aga Khan.<\/li>\n<li>The painting has been <strong>sold at Christie\u2019s in London for \u00a310.245 million<\/strong> from the private collection of Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: A Mughal painting of a cheetah family, created by Basawan around 1575 under Akbar, sold for nearly \u20b9120 crore in London. About Basawan Basavan was an renowned Mughal painter. He flourished during 16th century. He was a leading painters in Emperor Akbar\u2019s court. Painting style: His work is largely associated with innovation and expressive&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/basawan\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Basawan<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10366,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,11212,12039,11210],"tags":[11872,11074],"class_list":["post-374239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-history-and-art-culture-in-news","category-knolls","category-personalities-in-news","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-the-times-of-india","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}