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A life in paintings
Born 156015 dated paintingsDied 1600
17 works
- The donkey, in a tiger’s skin, reveals his identity by braying aloud, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Thirty-first NightBasawanc. 1560 · Cleveland Museum of Art
- 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 NightBasawanc. 1560 · Cleveland Museum of Art
- Page from Tales of a Parrot (Tuti-nama): text pageBasawanc. 1560 · Cleveland Museum of Art
- Page from Tales of a Parrot (Tuti-nama): text pageBasawanc. 1560 · Cleveland Museum of Art
- The hunter offers the mother parrot to the king of Kamarupa, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Fifth NightBasawanc. 1560 · Cleveland Museum of Art
- Mihrdukht aims her arrow at the ringattributed to · Attributed to Basawanc. 1570 · Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Courtier Awaiting Akbar's Commandattributed to · Attributed to Basawanc. 1575 · Harvard Art Museums
- A mendicant bowing before a holy man, from the Prince Salim AlbumBasawan1580–1595 · Cleveland Museum of Art
- A holy man prostrating himself before a learned princeattributed to · Attributed to Manohar Das and attributed to Basawan1580–1590 · Cleveland Museum of Art
- A feast for Babur hosted by his half-brother Jahangir Mirza in Ghazni in May 1505, from a Babur-nama (Memoirs of Babur)Basawan1584–1594 · Cleveland Museum of Art
- The Young Emperor Akbar Arrests the Insolent Shah Abu’l-Maali, page from a manuscript of the AkbarnamaBasawan1585–1595 · Art Institute of Chicago
- Akbar visits the tomb of Khwajah Mu'in ad-Din Chishti at AjmerBasawan1590–1595 · Victoria and Albert Museum
- The Virgin and Childattributed to · Attributed to Basawan1590 · San Diego Museum of Art
- 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)Basawan and Sur Das Gujaratic. 1596 · Cleveland Museum of Art
- Jain Ascetic Walking Along a RiverbankBasawanc. 1600 · Cleveland Museum of Art