1617

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Illuminated manuscript · Mughal

Jahangir Preferring a Sufi Shaikh to Kings

Bichitr

1617 · Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, District of Columbia

The emperor hands a book to a Sufi and ignores the kings waiting below, one of them James I, copied from an English portrait.

★ 7.9

Religious painting · Baroque

The Descent from the Cross (Rubens at Lille)

Peter Paul Rubens

1617 · Palais des Beaux Arts, Lille

Rubens painted this descent years after the Antwerp one, and the two together show him reworking the same falling body across a career.

★ 5.6