Mughal Paintings

A captivating and vibrant reflection of the art history of one of the greatest empires of the early modern period

List of contents

Director's Foreword
Preface & Acknowledgments

Painting, Patronage, and Propaganda in Mughal India by Marcus Fraser

Rustam: Images of a Persian Epic Hero by Mohsen Ashtiany
Joseph, Moses, and Elijah by Catherine Glynn
Messiahs, Prophets, and Jesuits at the Mughal Court: Christ and His Life as Literary and Visual References to Akbar and Jahangir by Pedro Moura Carvalho
The Story of the Mughals in India by Sonya Rhie Quintanilla
From the Inside Out: Spaces of Pleasure and Authority by Ruby Lal

Catalogue of Mughal and Deccan Paintings from the Catherine Glynn Benkaim and Ralph Benkaim Collection at the Cleveland Museum of Art by Dominique DeLuca

Epilogue: The Story of Catherine Glynn Benkaim, by Sonya Rhie Quintanilla
About the Authors
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Sonya Rhie Quintanilla is the George P. Bickford Curator of Indian and Southeast Asian Art, Cleveland Museum of Art, having been curator of Asian Art at the San Diego Museum of Art. She also taught Indian and Tibetan art history at UC Irvine, UCLA, and UC San Diego.
Sonya began her wok at the San Diego Museum of Art in 2004. During her tenure there, Sonya curated the groundbreaking exhibition Rhythms of India: The Art of Nandalal Bose, which involved a partnership with the National Gallery of Modern Art in New Delhi and was also shown at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 2008. Her exhibition Into India: South Asian Paintings from The San Diego Museum of Art was on view at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum of Art in Madrid through May 20, 2012.
Quintanilla completed her PhD at Harvard University where her dissertation focused on early Indian sculpture.

Summary

A captivating and vibrant reflection of the art history of one of the greatest empires of the early modern period

Product details

• Authors: Dominique DeLuca, Sonya Rhie Quintanilla, Quintanilla Sonya Rhie
• Publisher: Durnell
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2016
• EAN: 9781907804892
• ISBN: 978-1-907804-89-2
• Dimensions: 240 mm x 280 mm x 36 mm
• Weight: 2313 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; ART / History / General, ART / Subjects & Themes / Religious, ART / Asian / General, ART / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General, ART / Asian / Indian & South Asian, India, History of Art, Exhibition catalogues & specific collections, Painting & paintings, East Asia, Far East, Exhibition catalogues and specific collections, Oriental art, Paintings and painting, Religious subjects depicted in art, Religious and ceremonial arts