Som Prakash Verma

Mughal Painting

(Oxford India Short Introductions)

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Using diverse sources - Persia, Central Asian, European, and Indian, Som Prakash Verma provides a detailed survey of Mughal painting. His thematic approach offers a fresh treatment of the subject and highlights features that set the genre apart. Verma's detailed account of the Mughal atelier, genre of narrative art, historical portraits, self - portraits, paintings on natural history, and the analyses of the impact of Renaissance art of Europe make the book distinctive. This little showcases the Mughal patrons' and painters' concern for aesthetic appeal and intellectual message.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 180mm x 124mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 227g
• ISBN-13: 9780199451135
• ISBN-10: 0199451133
• Artikelnr.: 54936140

Autorenporträt

Som Prakash Verma retired as Professor of History, Aligarh Muslim University (2004). As a practicing artist he has received awards from Indian Academy of Fine Arts, Amritsar (1981) and the Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta (1982).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Preface
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Painting, Patrons, and Painters Genesis of the Mughal Art
1. The Atelier
2. Art of Book-Illustration
3. Portraiture
4. Self-portraits
5. Pictures on Nature History
6. Border Decoration
7. Humanism in Mughal Art
8. Artists' Signatures
9. Originality of the Mughal School
Appendix: Major Illustrated Manuscripts
Glossary
Bibliography
Index