Imperial Mughal Painting"Mughal patrons and artists doted on the world and its inhabitants. No pains were spared to record them realistically in life-oriented pictures,usually of people and animals. The people are exceptional--some of mankind's most extraordinary wordlings and wisest saints, shown in depth, to be scrutinized inside and out. All the folios reproduced here were made for the Mughal emperors of India or their immediate families during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. They were intense essences of their culture, showing emperors and their courts in elaborate settings, scenes of suspense and excitement depicting huns, demons, and elegant elephants, as well as a group of striking genre scenes in which the subtle rendering of light, learned form European painting, imparts a poetic quality that provides a striking conrast to the highly finished treatment of the royal portraits. The Introduction and Commentaries to the individual folios reproduced here have been provided by Stuart Cary Welch of The Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University."--back cover |
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A'in Abd us-Samad Abu'l Fazl Abu'l Hasan Agra Akbar Akbarnama Albert Museum Album Painting animals astrologers Aurangzeb Babur Bahadur Shah Bahadur Shah II Bairam Khan Basawan Bengal Bichitr Chester Beatty Library color court courtiers Dara Shikoh Darbar Daulat Deccan Delhi elephants emperor eyes Fatehpur Sikri father favorite Figure Fogg Art Museum folio Freer Gallery Gallery of Art Garden Govardhan Hamza Hamza-nama Hawa'i Hindu Hindustan History holy Humayun imperial Inayat Khan India inscribed Jahangir Kabul Lahore later London Mahal Mansur manuscript Memoirs Miniature Miskin Mughal art Mughal artists Mughal empire MUGHAL PAINTING Muhammad Shah Museum of Art musicians Muslim Nadir Nur Jahan painters patron Persian pigments Plate 24 Plate 33 portrait Prince Khurram Private Collection probably Qandahar Rajput reign religious royal ruler Safavi Salim Sayyid Scribe Shah Jahan Shah Shuja Shah's Sher style throne translated Victoria and Albert است اور ای این با بود که کی یا