Daswanth or Dasavant (b. 1560 - d. 1584) was a Mughal-era painter in the service of the emperor Akbar. While not much is know of his early life, it is...
illustrated in this manuscript. The artist of this copy were Basawan, Daswanth and Lal. 147 illustrations of this Razmnama manuscript were reproduced...
perhaps then in Bijapur, returning north from around 1605 to his death. Daswanth, a Hindu, d. 1584, who worked especially on Akbar's Razmnama, the Mahabharata...
commented on in the Ain-i-Akbari. It includes Sayyid Ali, Abd al-Samad, Daswanth and Basawan. Basawan's son Manohar Das succeeded him as a court painter...
Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, Vienna. The manuscript is credited to Daswanth. The illuminated manuscript shows Umar fighting a dragon from the Hamzanama...
Quackery on the Sorcerers of Antali, Folio from the Hamzanama. Attributed to Daswanth, Sharavana and Mahesh. Between 1562 and 1577. Brooklyn Museum. Seated Man...
Islamic Art. text on a verso (battle of Mazandaran) Umar Defeats a Dragon, Daswanth Umar, disguised as Mazmahil the Surgeon, practices quackery on the Sorcerers...
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