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Informationen zum Autor Laura E. Parodi (Ph.D.) is an independent scholar based in Genoa, Italy. She has taught courses and seminars at the University of Oxford, University College Dublin, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and two Italian universities, and is the author of numerous essays on Mughal art and architecture, manuscript studies, and garden historiography. Klappentext Between the fourteenth and eighteenth centuries! the Deccan stood at the crossroads of far-reaching commercial and diplomatic networks. It ranged from Arabia and Iran to East Asia and! increasingly! fell within the orbit of European colonial expansion. This book offers an exploration of the art of the late medieval and early modern Deccan. Vorwort Between the fourteenth and eighteenth centuries, the Deccan stood at the crossroads of far-reaching commercial and diplomatic networks. It ranged from Arabia and Iran to East Asia and, increasingly, fell within the orbit of European colonial expansion. This book offers an exploration of the art of the late medieval and early modern Deccan. Zusammenfassung Between the fourteenth and eighteenth centuries, the Deccan stood at the crossroads of far-reaching commercial and diplomatic networks. It ranged from Arabia and Iran to East Asia and, increasingly, fell within the orbit of European colonial expansion. This book offers an exploration of the art of the late medieval and early modern Deccan. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword - Richard M. EatonIntroduction: The Deccan as a Laboratory for the Study of Early Modern Visual CulturePART I: EXPLORING URBAN LANDSCAPES FROM THE FUNCTIONAL TO THE SYMBOLICThe Circular Cities of the Deccan - Marika SandarGolconda’s Mosques and Tombs: Distribution, Chronology and Meaning - Robert A. SimpkinsRecreating Islam in the Seventeenth-Century Deccan - Mark BrandPART II: PEOPLE’S BELIEFS IN THE MIRROR OF ARCHITECTURE AND THE ARTSSculpted Representations of Muslims and Bahmani Architectural Influence at Vijayanagara - George MichellThe Great Mosque at Gulbarga Reinterpreted as the Hazar Sutun of Firuz Shah Bahmani - Helen PhilonDeccani Guns: Features and Ornamentalism - Klaus RötzerThe Fighting on the Wall: Animal Symbolism in the Deccan in a Eurasian Perspective - Gijs KruijtzerPART III: COURT ART POLIICIES: COSMOPOLITANISM, DIPLOMACY AND THE VISUALVariations on a Persian Theme: Persianate Painting at the Court of Golconda - Laura WeinsteinA Dutch Artist in Biajapur - Deborah Hutton and Rebecca TuckerVida de Jacques de Coutre: A Flemish Account of Bijapuri Visual Culture in the Shadow of Mughal Felicity - Keelan OvertonPART IV: BEYOND THE COURT: MARKET COMMODITIES AND POPULAR DEVOTION AS REFLECTED IN THE ARTSEast and West: The Deccan and the Outside World - John CarswellBidri Ware and the New Mughal Order - Laura ParodiGulshan-i ‘Ishq: Illustrations of a Sufi Romance of the Deccan - Navina HaidarSacred Spaces and Objects of Popular Muslim Devotion, Practices and Festivals - Omar KhalidiConclusion...
