The two Mughal paintings exhibited here make use of a favorite trope (or visual figure) from the imperial Mughal painting tradition of India, the cosmic animals. In the first painting, we see King Solomon in his court, surrounded by symbols of the entire universe: animals, people, innocently nude fairies with wings, divs (demons, serving his court), plants and birds. The cosmic jungle animals are in the foreground, consisting of species who usually are predators or prey, all peacefully lined up in ordered ranks under his divine gaze.  The second painting is titled "Jahangir's Dream". It shows the Mughal emperor Jahangir cordially embracing the Persian Sultan Abbas, even though the two never actually met. Jahangir was concerned about losing Kandahar to the Persians, but was too busy enjoying life to take an interest in warfare. Thus, he commissioned a painting displaying him as an amicable friend of Persia, hugging its monarch.    King Solomon's Court Miniature from Mughal period, ca. 1600. Attributed to Madhu Khanazad, probably from a Diwan of Hafiz. Fogg Art Museum. Example of Akbar's court painting at the time of its greatest refinement, after the court had moved from Lahore to Agra. Emperor Jahangir embracing Sultan Abbas of Persia. An important Mughal painting surviving almost intact from 1618, now in the Smithsonian; shows two regal personages in embrace, standing atop a sheep and a lion respectively, who in turn rest on a globe supporting a map of the world as understood at that time. The monarch poised on the lion is Jahangir, with Abbas standing less grandly on the sheep. They are both haloed by the sun and the moon, a figure supported by cherubs, entities that had begun to appear in Mughal art as the result of missionaries bringing European pictures for the Mughal emperors to view.