'Muraqqa 1: dressed by heaven' (2011) - 46 pages in spot color (which earned us some wonderful watercolors):
Priti Jain is a (an ancient religion which has some 12mio faithful around the world, mainly in India, which advocates a vision, knowledge and righteous conduct) who learned to paint miniatures (drawings or paintings for illustrate manuscripts) in a school funded by the Mughal Empire (founded in the early fourteenth century in India by Turko-Mongol Muslim Persianized). His work has been noticed by the chief eunuch of the Queen, Priti is' invited 'to join the harem of the Emperor to the Agra Fort, seat of the court, in order to achieve muraqqa' (a book composed of Thumbnails) on the lives of women in harem, that maze of sensuality that is as much a place of plots or crimes that seduction ...
Ana Mirallès apparently like in India since both the graduate 'Djinn' that this new series find their actions take place there, even if it is at very different times. Perhaps nostalgic ambiance harems in which she bathed for the first four components of 'Djinn' first cycle ', it takes us back, taking his time (perhaps this was his first goal), the even the heart of one of those legendary zenanas that captured hundreds of women of all ages, classes, races and religions, and whose most appreciated concubines outright had their own palace with servants inside the enclosure the harem, which was a real small town inside the big one. Also less erotic and without significant characters that 'Djinn' (for the moment), but beautifully painted, 'Muraqqa' delight aesthetes!