Take a close look at this painting, rolling your cursor over the image to magnify. What can you tell about the people depicted here just by looking?

• What details do you see?
• How has the artist used lines? Color?
• Does the image look realistic? Why or why not?
• How are the figures dressed?
• Who do you think these people are? What do you see that leads you to that conclusion?

This painting depicts two courtiers, men who served as advisors and companions to kings and emperors in their royal courts. In Mughal studios , teams of copyists, colorists, gilders, calligraphers, pagers, and binders worked under the direction of master painters to produce works of a combined effort.

When have you worked in a team? Was it more difficult or easier than working alone? Why? Do you think the artists who worked in these studios faced the same issues?