The Emperors' Album

The Emperors' Album PDF Author: Stuart Cary Welch
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870994999
Category : Calligraphy, Islamic
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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Fifty leaves that form the sumptuous Kevorkian Album, one of the world's greatest assemblages of Mughal art. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.

The Emperors' Album

The Emperors' Album PDF Author: Stuart Cary Welch
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870994999
Category : Calligraphy, Islamic
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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Book Description
Fifty leaves that form the sumptuous Kevorkian Album, one of the world's greatest assemblages of Mughal art. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.

The Emperors' Album

The Emperors' Album PDF Author: Stuart Cary Welch
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art New York
ISBN: 9780300086010
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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An examination of fifty leaves that form the sumptuous Kevorkian Album, one of the world's great assemblages of Mughal art.

The Emperor's Album: Images of Mughal India

The Emperor's Album: Images of Mughal India PDF Author:
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Languages : en
Pages :

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Rembrandt and the Inspiration of India

Rembrandt and the Inspiration of India PDF Author: Stephanie Schrader
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 1606065521
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 162

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This sumptuously illustrated volume examines the impact of Indian art and culture on Rembrandt (1606–1669) in the late 1650s. By pairing Rembrandt’s twenty-two extant drawings of Shah Jahan, Jahangir, Dara Shikoh, and other Mughal courtiers with Mughal paintings of similar compositions, the book critiques the prevailing notion that Rembrandt “brought life” to the static Mughal art. Written by scholars of both Dutch and Indian art, the essays in this volume instead demonstrate how Rembrandt’s contact with Mughal painting inspired him to draw in an entirely new, refined style on Asian paper—an approach that was shaped by the Dutch trade in Asia and prompted by the curiosity of a foreign culture. Seen in this light, Rembrandt’s engagement with India enriches our understanding of collecting in seventeenth-century Amsterdam, the Dutch global economy, and Rembrandt’s artistic self-fashioning. A close examination of the Mughal imperial workshop provides new insights into how Indian paintings came to Europe as well as how Dutch prints were incorporated into Mughal compositions.

The Imperial Image

The Imperial Image PDF Author: Milo Cleveland Beach
Publisher: Mapin
ISBN: 9781935677161
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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Books have been treasured for centuries in the Islamic world, as precious objects worthy of royal admiration. This was especially true in Muslim India, where generations of Mughal emperors commissioned and collected volumes of richly illuminated manuscripts and lavishly illustrated folios. They assembled workshops of the leading artists and calligraphers to produce the books that filled their extensive libraries. Today, those works remain a vibrant part of India's cultural and artistic history in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In this revised and expanded edition of his popular 1981 book, Dr Milo Beach presents the superb collection of Mughal painting in the Freer Gallery of Art. He adds many of the outstanding works that entered the collection with the opening of the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in 1987. Together, the Freer and Sackler Galleries, the Smithsonian's museums of Asian art, have the distinction of being one of the world's leading repositories of Mughal art. An introductory essay examines the Mughal art of the book and traces the contributions of a succession of rulers in Muslim India. Brief artist biographies and an extensive bibliography complete this updated volume.

Muraqqaʻ Imperial Mughal Albums from the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin

Muraqqaʻ Imperial Mughal Albums from the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin PDF Author: Elaine Julia Wright
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780883971543
Category : Calligraphy, Mogul
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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A fascinating study of some of the most remarkable of all albums ever created

Mughal Occidentalism

Mughal Occidentalism PDF Author: Mika Natif
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900437499X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332

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In Mughal Occidentalism, Mika Natif elucidates the meaningful and complex ways in which Mughal artists repurposed Christian and Renaissance visual idioms to embody themes from classical Persian literature and represent Mughal policy, ideology and dynastic history from the 1580s-1630s

Indian Book Painting

Indian Book Painting PDF Author: Ernst Kühnel
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788173054570
Category : Illumination of books and manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Collection of specimens of writing (Arabic characters) miniatures and copper engravings, formerly in possession of Jahāngīr, emperor of Hindustan, now in Preussische Staatsbibliothek, Berlin.

Princes & Painters

Princes & Painters PDF Author: William Dalrymple
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 9351181731
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 338

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A dazzling celebration of the art and artists of late-Mughal Delhi Between 1707 and 1857, Delhi was a hotbed of political intrigue and power struggles the Mughal Empire was on the decline and the British East India Company was emerging as a formidable power. In 1857, these tensions would culminate in the Mutiny that led to the end of Mughal dominion and the beginning of the British Raj. But this turbulent epoch also witnessed a burst of artistic innovation and experimentation. Delhis artists were increasingly employed by Company officials as well as the Mughal and regional courts, and thus became adept at improvising with a variety of techniques, creating traditional miniatures while continually experimenting with new European styles. Art historians are only now coming to recognize the richness and ingenuity of the work created in this period. With insightful essays by distinguished scholars, Princes and Painters is a stunning visual document of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Delhi.

Indian Court Painting, 16th-19th Century

Indian Court Painting, 16th-19th Century PDF Author: Steven Kossak
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870997823
Category : Miniature painting, Indic
Languages : en
Pages : 154

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A catalogue to accompany an exhibit held at the museum from March to July 1997. Color reproductions of 83 paintings are presented chronologically rather than in the usual separate sections on Mughal, Deccani, Rijput, and Pahari traditions. Kossak, associate curator of Asian art at the museum, offers an introductory essay. Distributed in the US by Harry N. Abrams. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR