Golconda painting

Zebrowski characterizes Golconda paintings as having a "tense opulence that is quite different from the poignant romanticism of Bijapur or the refined dignity of Ahmadnagar portraiture."

Most of the surviving paintings from this period are contained within a manuscript of the Kulliyat (collection) of the sultan's poetry, located in the Salar Jung Museum.

[2] The paintings make heavy use of Persian imagery, incorporating very few new elements, only in terms of the color palette used and the technique of the application of marbled paper to represent objects, such as the body of a peacock.

Hermann Goetz states, "All the datable products of this school belong to the times of Sultan Abul- Hasan.

There is, however, every reason to believe that this school originated under his predecessor ‘Abdullah, during whose reign Golconda art was strongly influenced by that of the Emperor Jahangir's and, to a less extent, that of Shah Jahan’s court."