For Muslim painters a scene of natural beauty is incomplete...

For Muslim painters a scene of natural beauty is incomplete and incomprehensible with the observer being there in the painting in one form or another. It is a new mode of perception; seeing nature as an inter-play between natural stimuli and the human eye. Western critics of Muslim art do not see this point. They dismiss the entire Muslim painting as sentimental and romantic because it is not interested in nature per say . Muslim painters did not introduce perspective in their paintings.

Their paintings seem almost all – except those made in the time of Jahangir under the impact of Dutch and Flemish painters – to be lacking in depth. The third dimension and the changes it…