Summary:  of Beauty—it is at a disadvantage beside the European Christian Art. In the Moghul Message of Beauty, there is an honesty and a directness of approach, a seeming lack of self-consciousness, which make it at once naïve, sincere, and immensely satisfying. The Moghuls saw Beauty, and they painted it; they saw themselves, and they painted themselves; they saw their Palaces and Gardens, their Elephants and Horses, their Women and their Flowers, and they painted them, embedded in the marvel of a coherent and consistent decorative scheme. They painted Nature, and they painted their Dreams, and they painted themselves as they would wish to be seen—for they felt at one with Nature, insensate things, and their own***.