Mughal Occidentalism, Artistic Encounters between Europe and Asia at the Courts of India, 1580-1630.

Mughal Occidentalism, Artistic Encounters between Europe and Asia at the Courts of India, 1580-1630.

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 f...

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Main Author: Mika Natif

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2018.

Series: Studies in Persian Cultural History 15.
Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2018, ISBN: 9789004353343.

Subjects:

Painting, Mogul Empire > European influences.
Painting, Mogul Empire > Themes, motives.
Art, European > Influence.

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Call Number: ND1002

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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright page
  • Dedication
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of Illustrations
  • Abbreviations and Conventions
  • Introduction
  • Mughal Tolerance and the Encounters with Europe
  • Mughal Masters and European Art: Tradition and Innovation at the Royal Workshops
  • European Articles in Mughal Painting
  • Landscape Painting as Mughal Allegory: Micro-Architecture, Perspective and ṣulḥ-i kull
  • Concepts of Portraiture under Akbar and Jahangir
  • Epilogue
  • Back Matter
  • Bibliography
  • Index.