biography
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Daswanth
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also found as Daswarth or Dasvanth
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| male
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| lived:
| (16th-c)
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| biography:
| Painter at the court of the emperor Akbar the Great. Akbar was interested in the development of an Indian school of painting, and established an academy in which Hindu artists worked under the guidance of Persian painters. Daswanth was one of its three leading artists. Most of the surviving paintings of the ‘Hamzanama’, the adventures of Amir Hamza, the uncle of the prophet leader, were painted at the academy during Akbar's reign. |
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