Indian court painting, 16th-19th century Steven Kossak

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kossak, Steven

Contributor:

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Painting, Indic--History--Exhibitions.

Painting, Indic.

Rajput painting--Exhibitions.

Rajput painting.

Painting, Mughal Empire--Exhibitions.

Painting, Mughal Empire.

Deccani painting--Exhibitions.

Deccani painting.

Pahari painting--Exhibitions.

Pahari painting.

Miniature painting, Indic--India--Exhibitions.

Miniature painting, Indic.

India.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs

History

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 142 pages) color illustrations, map

Distribution:

New York Distributed by Harry N. Abrams, Incorporated

Other Title:

Indian court painting, sixteenth-nineteenth century.

Place of Publication:

New York The Metropolitan Museum of Art [1997]

System Details:

Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212

Summary:

"Paintings of extraordinary beauty and variety were made for the many royal courts of India during a golden age that unfolded in the sixteenth century and lasted well into the British period. In India, two artistic traditions converged. The indigenous Rajput culture produced exuberant, vibrantly colored, boldly patterned illustrations of Hindu myths and epics. The entirely different art of the Islamic Mughal invaders, subtle and naturalistic, mainly presented elegant scenes of court life and history. From the cross-fertilization of these two traditions, a multiplicity of highly original painting styles blossomed and flourished. While works of art originating in Mughal and Rajput courts are often treated separately, in this book paintings made in the major Mughal, Deccani, Rajput, and Pahari workshops are presented together, chronologically. Eighty-three exceptionally fine paintings are reproduced in full color. Each is accompanied by a paragraph explaining the subject illustrated and pointing out particular qualities of style. The rich, remarkable court paintings of India are splendidly offered to the reader's eye and mind in this book, which also includes a map, enlarged detail photographs, and a selected bibliography"--Jacket

Notes:

Published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from March 25 to July 6, 1997

Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-136) and index

Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010

Print version record

Other Format:

Print version Kossak, Steven. Indian court painting, 16th-19th century

OCLC:

605039161