The richly detailed, vibrant paintings and illustrated manuscripts produced in the royal workshops of the Mughal Court, such as the Hamzanama, Akbarnama and Jahangirnama, recounted popular stories and documented court life. The pigments used in their creation were derived from mineral and organic sources.
In this film, Anita Chowdry, visual artist and long-term researcher and lecturer in the Arts of the Book and painting in the Islamic world and Indian subcontinent, demonstrates the traditional, painstaking method of creating blue pigment from lapis lazuli and green pigment from malachite stones.
Find out more about the arts of the Mughal Empire.
