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The Brush of Insight: Artists and Agency at the Mughal Court

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The Brush of Insight: Artists and Agency at the Mughal Court - Rice, Yael
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"Over the course of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, Mughal court painters evolved from being mere illustrators of manuscripts and albums to mediating imperial visionary experience, assuming novel roles as imperial intimates. In Agents of Insight, Yael Rice traces this shift, demonstrating how royal artists created a new visual economy that featured highly naturalistic royal portraits, depictions of the emperors' dreams, and close, documentary studies of courtly gifts and rarities"--

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The Brush of Insight: Artists and Agency at the Mughal Court 2023, University of Washington Press, Seattle

ISBN-13: 9780295751092

Hardcover