Paintings from Mughal India
Publisher: Bodleian Library, University of Oxford; Bodleian Library
Published: February 15, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9781851243310
Subjects: Oriental art; Painting & paintings; c 1500 to c 1600; c 1600 to c 1700; Art; Art & Art Instruction; India; Asian; Techniques - Painting; Art / Painting
Description: "This book reproduces some of the finest examples of Mughal period paintings in the historic collection of the Bodleian Library. Many of these images are spectacularly rich in detail and have never before been seen in print. They include paintings made for the Great Mughals Akbar, Jahangir and Shah Jahan (1556-1658), not least the six illustrations from the celebrated Baharistan manuscript prepared for Akbar in 1595. There are also important works of the reign of Muhammad Shah (1719-48), as well as paintings from the courts of the Deccan and from later provincial Mughal centres in Oudh and Bengal."--Jacket.