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    Bichitr was an Indian artist who lived in the early 17th century and worked with watercolors, gold, and ink on paper. His style used elements like vibrant colors, line work, and symbolic imagery. His major work, Jahangir Preferring a Sufi Shaikh to Kings from around 1620, depicts the Mughal emperor choosing a Sufi spiritual leader over secular rulers and was meant to showcase Jahangir's patronage of Sufism.

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    Bichitr was an Indian artist who lived in the early 17th century and worked with watercolors, gold, and ink on paper. His style used elements like vibrant colors, line work, and symbolic imagery. His major work, Jahangir Preferring a Sufi Shaikh to Kings from around 1620, depicts the Mughal emperor choosing a Sufi spiritual leader over secular rulers and was meant to showcase Jahangir's patronage of Sufism.

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    208 BICHITR Jahangir Preferring A Sufi Shaikhn To Kings Organizer

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    Bichitr was an Indian artist who lived in the early 17th century and worked with watercolors, gold, and ink on paper. His style used elements like vibrant colors, line work, and symbolic imagery. His major work, Jahangir Preferring a Sufi Shaikh to Kings from around 1620, depicts the Mughal emperor choosing a Sufi spiritual leader over secular rulers and was meant to showcase Jahangir's patronage of Sufism.

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    1. ARTIST: (Biographical information, training, style/ 2. STYLISTIC CHARACTERISTICS: (use of design 3.

    MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES: (art making


    period, where lived/ created art, influences) elements/ principles: color, shape, value, texture, processes)
    line, space; balance, contrast, emphasis,
    BICHITR movement, etc.) Watercolor, gold, and ink on paper

    4. TITLE(S) OF MAJOR WORK(S): 5. TITLE/ FORM/ ORIGINAL CONTEXT/ SITE/


    INTENDED FUNCTION OF FOCUS WORK (IMAGE IN
    CENTER): (Overlap to #6)

    208. Jahangir Preferring a Sufi Shaikh to Kings


    (c.1620 CE)

    6. INTENDED PURPOSE & MOTIVATION (why was it 7. INNOVATION/ CHANGE(S): 8. THEME(S):


    made?); PATRON/AUDIENCE (who was it made for?);
    ARTIST’S DECISION MAKING:

    CONVENTION/ TRADITION(S): COMPARE TO ANOTHER WORK:

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