The Indian Mongol King Akbar (1556-1605) has a dream : to provide to his people the most peaceful, wealthier, fortune place in the world to live in...But how?
By combining cultural open spirit with true religious tolerance through...fine arts!
Akbar started to traduce and illustrate Hindus texts to share knowledge with the Muslims benders, then he invited Jesuits to discuss their Christian art and theories! Those initiatives help set a highly centralised cultural ecosystem up, based on a set of experts and on an innovative rewarding system for the time. Even though the objective was to hype and promote the imperial effort and actions, this personal tendency of Akbar remains an incredibly way to leverage artistic avenues to reach peace and harmony. Louis 14 was then highly inspired by him, he was a great art protector and tend to foster all types of Fines Arts all around the French kingdom.
And what about be inspired too by that method to launch effectively our own projects?
To go beyond the stars:I invite you to read the Conte of Perroquet (Shukasapati), amazing and leisurely novels quite similar from the Mille et une Nuits where a parrot try to move away from its mistress from extramarital relation by relating her exciting histories. You will be able to observe and admire the quality of the illustrations, mainly in gouache and gold: the fine forms, the lively colors shape a natural disposition, those miniatures enhance our inspiration to explore our emotions!
