Portraiture in South Asia since the Mughals : art, representation and history /: art, representation and history. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Crispin Branfoot.
• Other Names: Branfoot, Crispin
• Contents: Cover; Author Biography; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Note on Transliteration and Conventions; List of Contributors; Introduction Portraiture in South Asia; What is a Portrait in South Asia?; Court Portraiture in Mughal India; Portraying the Ideal Rajput; What were Portraits for?; Colonial Modernity and Court Portraiture in South Asia; 1. Portrait or Image? Some Literary and Terminological Perspectives on Portraiture in Early India; The Prevalence of Portraiture in Early India; Literary Testimonies and Vocabulary Narratives of the Origins of Portraits and Images2. Tracing the Rise of Mughal Portraiture: The Kabul Corpus, c. 1545-55; Introducing the Kabul Corpus (c. 1545-55); Individual Portraits; Portraits within Larger Compositions; The Paintings' Raison d'etre: Presentation Pieces for the Nawroz Festival?; Approved Likenesses and Master Drawings; The Timurid-Safavid Legacy; Conclusion; 3. Jahangir as Publius Scipio Maior: The Commensurability of Mughal Political Portraiture; The European Connection; The Standing Portrait; Jahangir as the Queller of Rebellion Archduke Matthias as Publius Scipio MaiorThe Standing Portrait before a Landscape under Shah Jahan; Jahangir and Archduke Matthias in Political Crisis; Commensurability or Incommensurability?; 4. Portraits in the Mirror: Living Images in NāṢir 'Alī Sirhindī and Mīrzā 'Abd al-Qādir Bīdil; Nāṣir 'Alī Sirhindī's Naqqāsh u ṣūrat; The Story of Bīdil's Portrait; Conclusion; 5. Becoming the Hero: Metamorphosis of the Raja; 6. The Prevalence of Portraiture in the Development of the Devgarh Style; 7. Heroic Rulers and Devoted Servants: Performing Kingship in the Tamil Temple Performing Devotion on Venkatam HillDynastic Genealogies on Display in Nayaka Madurai; Portraiture and Pilgrimage to Rameshvaram; New Royalty and Temple Portraiture in Colonial Madras Presidency; Conclusion; 8. Village Portraits in William Fraser's Portfolio of Native Drawings; The Road to Delhi; A Gentlemen Settler for Delhi; Shaping Boundaries, Mapping Figures; Delineating the Immeasurable: Rania and Pastoral Portraiture; Capturing a Likeness; Empiricism of the Heart; The Delhi Artist between Court and Company 9. The Role of Portraiture in Pakistani Contemporary Miniature Painting: The 'Mughal Connection'Chance; Artists; Bibliography; Index
• Publisher Details: London New York : I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource (270 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates), illustrations (some color)
• Subjects: 709.5; Painting, Mogul Empire -- History; Painting, Mogul Empire -- Influence; Islamic art -- South Asia; Islamic art; Painting, Mogul Empire; ART / History / General; South Asia; History; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781838608965; 1838608966
• Related ISBNs: 9781780767246; 1780767242
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [249]-265) and index; Note: Print version record.
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