A dynasty's final portraitSourced
Generations of rulers in one painting.
A few years later, the kingdom fell.
The House of Bijapur, painted around 1680, gathered the dynasty's rulers in one image. The Bijapur sultanate was conquered by the Mughals in 1686. An art historian later likened the painting to a curtain call before the end.
A family portrait
near the close of an era.
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