211. A Beautiful World: The Art of Akbar

Empire

Jack Davenport

History

4.6 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

As a dyslexic child, Akbar explored his curiosities about the world through visual wonders, and by having literature read aloud to him. As an adult, his love of art evolved as he became the patron of a multicultural group of calligraphers, painters, poets and more. A now renowned Mughal artistic style developed from his court, with iconic paintings full of bright colours and meticulous details. How did Akbar shape this style? And how was his art and architecture impacted by the religious tolerance he promoted? Listen as William and Anita explore the art and architecture that emerged from Akbar’s court. Twitter: @Empirepoduk Email: [email protected] Goalhangerpodcasts.com Assistant Producer: Anouska Lewis Producer: Callum Hill Exec Producer: Neil Fearn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:02.9	And me, William Drupal.
1:04.4	The reason we may be a little bit out of breath is because we've been laughing very, very loudly about Cal's pep talk just before we came into this.
1:13.7	We're very lucky to have Cal.
1:15.1	No, no, no, it's very good.
1:16.3	It was a very acute observation, which is, you're talking about pretty things.
1:21.6	Just describe them.
1:23.1	To paraphrase, basically don't make this episode shit.
1:26.2	Because that was our plan.
1:28.9	We're very lucky to have a producer like Cal. Without his sterling advice, who knows how this
1:33.1	podcast could end up? So look, previously, doing the little wave emotion, previously on this podcast,
1:39.5	we've been talking about Akbar, the Mughal emperor who took a template, ripped it up, threw it into the air,
1:45.7	every place that one bit of confetti landed, he made his empire. And, well, I mean, I sort of
1:51.3	described at the end of the last episode that he'd created a hippie commune where peace and love
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