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Mughal occidentalism : artistic encounters between Europe and Asia at the courts of India, 1580-1630
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ISBN: 9789004371095 9789004374997 900437499X 9004371095 Year: 2018 Publisher: Leiden Brill

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In Mughal Occidentalism , Mika Natif elucidates the meaningful and complex ways in which Mughal artists engaged with European art and techniques from the 1580s-1630s. Using visual and textual sources, this book argues that artists repurposed Christian and Renaissance visual idioms to embody themes from classical Persian literature and represent Mughal policy, ideology and dynastic history. A reevaluation of illustrated manuscripts and album paintings incorporating landscape scenery, portraiture, and European objects demonstrates that the appropriation of European elements was highly motivated by Mughal concerns. This book aims to establish a better understanding of cross-cultural exchange from the Mughal perspective by emphasizing the agency of local artists active in the workshops of Emperors Akbar and Jahangir.


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Rembrandt and the inspiration of India
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ISBN: 9781606065525 1606065521 Year: 2018 Publisher: Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum,

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Late in Rembrandt's career, the celebrated Dutch artist took inspiration from Mughal paintings. The twenty-three surviving drawings, produced during the late 1650s, stand out among his oeuvre not only for their foreign subject matter but also for their meticulous style. This volume brings together these drawings with Mughal paintings for the first time and challenges the prevailing notion that Rembrandt "brought life" to the static Mughal art. Written by scholars of both Dutch and Indian art, the essays demonstrate how Rembrandt's contact with Mughal paintings inspired him to draw in a refined style on Asian paper - an approach that was shaped by the Dutch trade in Surat and prompted by the curiosity of a foreign culture. Seen in this light, Rembrandt's engagement with India enriches our understanding of collecting in seventeenth-century Amsterdan, the Dutch global economy, and Rembrandt's artistic self-fashioning. A close examination of the Mughal imperial workshop provides new insights into how Indian paintings came to Europe as well as how Dutch prints were incorporated into Mughal compositions.


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The courts of India: Indian miniatures from the collection of the Fondation Custodia, Paris
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ISBN: 9066303034 Year: 1991 Publisher: Zwolle Waanders

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