Indian Court Painting, 16th-19th CenturyThe author vividly describes the vicissitudes of political power, royal personality, and the movement of artists from place to place that constituted the historical and social context in which each regional court evolved its distinctive artistic vocabulary. The rich, remarkable court paintings of India are splendidly offered to the reader's eye and mind in this book, which also includes a map, enlarged detail photographs, and a selected bibliography. |
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artists Aurangzeb Bhagavata Purana Bhagavata Purana Ancient Bikaner Bundi composition Deccan decorative Delhi demon depiction Devi drawing eighteenth century figures foreground goddess gold on paper gopis Guler Harvard University Art Hindu Hindu courts Howard Hodgkin illustrated images imperial atelier INDIAN COURT PAINTING Indian painting Ink and opaque Isarda Islamic Jahangir Jain Jaipur Kangra Kishangarh Kota Krishna Kronos Collections landscape Lord Vishnu maharaja Mandi manuscript Metropolitan Museum Mewar Mughal court Mughal influence Mughal painting Mughal style Muhammad Shah Museum of Art musical modes Muslim Nainsukh opaque watercolor Pahari painters palette paper 12 pattern period of Akbar pictorial picture plane portraits Punjab Hills Purana Ancient stories Radha raja Rajasthan Rajput painting Rama Ramayana royal Sackler Museum scene Shah Jahan Shangri Shiva silver on paper Singh space stories of Lord stylized University Art Museums viewer watercolor on paper Welch York Fletcher Fund York Purchase York Rogers Fund