Paintings of extraordinary beauty and variety were made for the many royal courts of India during a golden age that unfolded in the sixteenth century and lasted well into the British period. In India, two artistic traditions converged. The indigenous Rajput culture produced exuberant, vibrantly colored, boldly patterned illustrations of Hindu myths and epics. The entirely different art of the Islamic Mughal invaders, subtle and naturalistic, mainly presented elegant scenes of court life and history. From the cross ...
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Paintings of extraordinary beauty and variety were made for the many royal courts of India during a golden age that unfolded in the sixteenth century and lasted well into the British period. In India, two artistic traditions converged. The indigenous Rajput culture produced exuberant, vibrantly colored, boldly patterned illustrations of Hindu myths and epics. The entirely different art of the Islamic Mughal invaders, subtle and naturalistic, mainly presented elegant scenes of court life and history. From the cross-fertilization of these two traditions, a multiplicity of highly original painting styles blossomed and flourished. While works of art originating in Mughal and Rajput courts are often treated separately, in this book paintings made in the major Mughal, Deccani, Rajput, and Pahari workshops are presented together, chronologically. Eighty-three exceptionally fine paintings are reproduced in full color. Each is accompanied by a paragraph explaining the subject illustrated and pointing out particular qualities of style. Interrelations between the various court traditions are explored in the essay, a lucid and comprehensive overview of the development of Indian painting. The 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. [This book was originally published in 1997 and has gone out of print. This edition is a print-on-demand version of the original book.] Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Distributed by Yale University Press
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Book could easily pass as new condition. Very slight fading along top edge of pages. 142 p. Audience: General/trade.
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Very Good + in very good + jacket. Quarto, red cloth boards in dust jacket, book and jacket are in very good + condition, jacket has edge wear and rubbing, book has light overall wear, 142pp.
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Fine in fine jacket. 98 color illustrations. 142pp. Short 4to, red cloth, d.w. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1997. A fine copy in a fine dust wrapper.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art: Distributed by Harry N. Abrams
Published:
1997
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
17755636626
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Near Fine. 4to. x, 142 pp. Bound in full red cloth, title stamped in gilt on spine, in illustrated dust jacket. Full-color frontispiece, full-color illustrations throughout, black and white map. Includes bibliography and index. Catalog from an exhibition held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from March 25 to July 6, 1997. Fine, bright, clean copy, in Near Fine dust jacket, light wear to rear cover.
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Good. Some shelfwear including scratch to back of dj, otherwise fine-in our rare books collection-may have remainder mark or previous owner's name Oversized.
