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Daswanth or
Dasavant (b. 1560 - d. 1584) was a Mughal-era
painter in the
service of the
emperor Akbar.
While not much is
known of his
early life, it is...
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illustrated in this m****cript. The
artist of this copy were Basawan,
Daswanth and Lal. 147
illustrations of this
Razmnama m****cript were reproduced...
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perhaps then in Bi****ur,
returning north from
around 1605 to his death.
Daswanth, a Hindu, d. 1584, who
worked especially on Akbar's Razmnama, the Mahabharata...
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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...
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Mahabharata along with Persian-inspired aesthetics.
Artists such as
Basawan and
Daswanth created work that
integrated Islamic and
Hindu iconography.
Banarasi sarees...
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Quackery on the
Sorcerers of Antali,
Folio from the Hamzanama.
Attributed to
Daswanth,
Sharavana and Mahesh.
Between 1562 and 1577.
Brooklyn Museum.
Seated Man...
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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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Museum of
Applied Arts, Vienna, Vienna. The m****cript is
credited to
Daswanth. The
illuminated m****cript
shows Umar
fighting a
dragon from the Hamzanama...
- to this artist".
Among the
mostly Hindu artists trained by
Samad were
Daswanth and Basavan, who went on to
become famous Mughal painters.
Despite his...
