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Paintings from Mughal India (Paperback, New)
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Paintings from Mughal India (Paperback, New)
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Loot Price R343
Discovery Miles 3 430
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A unique style of court painting, combining Persian, Indian and
European elements, developed in India under the Mughal emperors in
the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Originally an art of book
illustration, it soon gave rise to highly naturalistic portraiture
and scenes of court life, among other subjects. These elegant and
expressive works reflect the splendour of the Mughal empire, as
well as the enthusiasm of the emperors from Akbar (1556-1605)
onwards for stories of adventure and romance, for the recording of
great imperial assemblies, or the meticulous depiction of the flora
and fauna of India. Among the highlights of the book are the
illustrations to Akbar's magnificent Baharistan manuscript of 1595,
and the court scenes from the reigns of Shah Jahan (1627-58) or the
pleasure-loving Muhammad Shah (1719-48). This book reproduces many
of the finest Mughal and Deccani paintings preserved in the
Bodleian Library's rich and historic collection, largely formed
between 1640 and 1900. These pictures range in date from around
1560 to 1800, when British influence was becoming dominant in
India. Each image is presented as a full page colour plate with
facing text describing its subject and significance, while the
introduction situates the works within the general context of the
period and its art. A number of textual revisions have been made
since the book first appeared in 2008.
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