Common Scenes of Paintings

In paintings, women appear frequently as dancers, singers, maid servants or in single portraits, especially out of all royal ladies Nur Jehan and Mumtaz Mahal appear consistently, holding flower or wine cup against a landscape background. Idealized females were painted, with widened eyes and heavy greyish brownish shading on cheeks.
Most of common scenes are love scenes enjoying company of lover or awaiting arrival, drinking activities such as bathing scenes, drinking parties, Holi and birth scenes and other various scenes with different activities and compositions are astrologers preparing prince’s horoscope, dancing and drums beating and child and mother surrounded by harem ladies.
Proud race Mughals, were ardent lover of beauty and too royal ladies famed for their beauty, indulged undoubtedly in aesthetic pleasure form. In Mughals painting on the women’s treatment deeper insight into their life style, in-depth research and further investigation is required.