The Mughals seized political power in north India in 1526 and became the most important artistically active Muslim dynasty on the subcontinent. In this richly illustrated work, Dr. Milo Beach shows how Mughal patronage of the arts was radically innovative for the Indian context and profoundly altered the character of painting in the Rajput Hindu areas of north India. He reveals the different styles and subjects of Mughal and Rajput painting and the interplay of the two traditions. Beach also explores the tolerance each showed toward outside influence and change, demonstrating a uniquely Indian attitude towards the arts.
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"Beach's work is a sumptuous survey of the history of this long tradition....The strengths of the work lie in Beach's expertise, diligent research, and perceptive insights into the particular origins and peculiar techniques, as well as in the 195 plates (16 of them in color.) Indispensable for South Asia collections and equally valuable for the cognoscenti." Choice
"Mughal and Rajput Painting provides a useful and stimulating résumé of current knowledge." Times Literary Supplement
"Mughal and Rajput Painting provides a useful and stimulating résumé of current knowledge." Times Literary Supplement
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At the beginning of the sixteenth century, painters in India were already heirs to an unbroken artistic tradition of great antiquity and extraordinary brilliance. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
pahari style, pahari painting, artistic initiative, artistic attitudes, spatial depth, imperial style Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Bhagavata Purana, Abu'l Hasan, Punjab Hills, Abu'l Fazl, Fitzwilliam Album, Gita Govinda, Aqa Riza, Balwant Singh, Bhairava Raga, Royal Hunt, School Scene, Sultan Khurram, Wedding of Dara Shikoh, Bishan Das, Diwan of Anwari, Jahangir Greeting the Poet Sa'di, Krishna Fluting, Sarang Ragini, Western Indian, Akbar Nama, Chunar Ragamala, Karan Singh, New York, Raja Savant Singh of Kishangarh, Sultan Khusrau New!
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At the beginning of the sixteenth century, painters in India were already heirs to an unbroken artistic tradition of great antiquity and extraordinary brilliance. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
pahari style, pahari painting, artistic initiative, artistic attitudes, spatial depth, imperial style Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Bhagavata Purana, Abu'l Hasan, Punjab Hills, Abu'l Fazl, Fitzwilliam Album, Gita Govinda, Aqa Riza, Balwant Singh, Bhairava Raga, Royal Hunt, School Scene, Sultan Khurram, Wedding of Dara Shikoh, Bishan Das, Diwan of Anwari, Jahangir Greeting the Poet Sa'di, Krishna Fluting, Sarang Ragini, Western Indian, Akbar Nama, Chunar Ragamala, Karan Singh, New York, Raja Savant Singh of Kishangarh, Sultan Khusrau New!
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- Early Mughal Painting (Polsky Lectures in Indian & Southeast Asian Art & Archaeology) by Milo Cleveland Beach on page 3, and Back Matter
- Akbar and the Jesuits: An Account of the Jesuit Missions to the Court of Akbar by Pierre Du Jarric on page 70, and Back Matter
- Rajput Painting by Ananda K. Coomaraswamy in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Architecture of Mughal India (The New Cambridge History of India, Vol. 1.4) by Catherine B. Asher in Back Matter
- Taj Mahal by Caroline Arnold on page 143
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- Indian Art (Oxford History of Art) by Partha Mitter in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Perspectives on Persian Painting: Illustrations to Amir Khusrau's Khamsah by Dr Barbara Brend in Back Matter
- The Mughal Empire (The New Cambridge History of India) by John F. Richards in Back Matter
- The Oxford History of Islam by John L. Esposito in Back Matter
- Imaging Sound: An Ethnomusicological Study of Music, Art, and Culture in Mughal India (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology) by Bonnie C. Wade in Back Matter
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