Mary ascends the stairs to the temple, from a Mirror of Holiness (Mir’at al-quds) of Father Jerome Xavier

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Three-year-old Mary bounds up the stairs of the temple, eager to begin her education. Onlookers gesture in surprise. In the background the rocks have been cleverly shaded to look like faces—a Persian technique of visual double-entendre that the Mughals admired and adopted. Thi...

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