New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2007. — viii, 115 p. — ISBN: 9781588392244. Ancient Gandhara, located in the rugged foothills of the Himalayas in what is today northwest Pakistan and eastern Afghanistan, was for centuries a thriving center of trade along the Silk Road linking China, South Asia, and the Mediterranean. Gandhara's strategic position and wealth attracted many...
Orient Longman, 1981 — 370 p. Descroption of iconography in the Vaishnava sect in South India The Bacground Vaishava Concepts in the Tamil Country c. 300 BC — c. AD 600 The Pancaviras Narayana Visnu The Ten Avataras Minor Avataras Other Form of Visnu The Twentyfour Forms of Visnu Goddesses Minor Deities Alvars and Acaryas The Weapons of Visnu Syncretic Forms The Trends in...
Wachington: National Gallery of Art, 1985 – 224 p. The Sculpture of India assembles 100 works spanning four millennia in an effort to clarify and focus the achievements of India’s artistic tradition. The objects chosen range from the middle of the third millennium BC to approximately the 14th century AD, when vigorous foreign influence from Iran and central Asia imbued much of...
Allen Lane, 2014. — 560 p. This magnificent, lavishly illustrated book by India's most eminent and perceptive art historian, B.N. Goswamy, will open readers' eyes to the wonders of Indian painting and show them new ways of seeing and appreciating art. An illuminating introductory essay, ‘A Layered World', explains the themes and emotions that inspired Indian painters, the...
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2011. — 338 p. Between the fourteenth and the seventeenth century, the Deccan plateau of south-central India was home to a series of important and highly cultured Muslim courts. Subtly blending elements from Iran, West Asia, and sometimes Europe, as well as southern and northern India, the arts produced under these sultanates are markedly different...
Weatherhill, 1985. — 596 p. To scholars in the field, the need for an up-to-date overview of the art of South Asia has been apparent for decades. Although many regional and dynastic genres of Indic art are fairly well understood, the broad, overall representation of India's centuries of splendor has been lacking. The Art of Ancient India is the result of the authors' aim to...
Duke University Press Books, 2011 — 232 p. — ISBN10: 0822349221 / ISBN13: 978-0822349228 Built in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, India’s Mughal monuments — including majestic forts, mosques, palaces, and tombs, such as the Taj Mahal — are world renowned for their grandeur and association with the Mughals, the powerful Islamic empire that once ruled most of the...
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1997. — 152 p. 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...
Brill, 2011. — 240 p. Language: English. In the study of Indian art prior to the Mughal period, portraiture has so far been much neglected, when its existence has not simply been denied. This book is an attempt to reassess this issue, by showing that portraits have existed in great number in early India, since probably the first artistic achievements. Through a close scrutiny...
Bloomsbury Academic India, 2020. — 304 p. Art and History: Texts, Contexts and Visual Representations in Ancient and Early Medieval India seeks to locate the historical contexts of premodern Indian art traditions. The volume examines significant questions, such as: - What were the purposes served by art? - How were religious and political ideas and philosophies conveyed through...
Mikaya Press, 2008 — 48 p. — ISBN10: 1931414203 / ISBN13: 978-1931414203 Shah Jahan, ruler of India, murdered three of his brothers in his bloody rise to power. Yet when his beloved wife, Mumtaz Mahal, suddenly died, the grief-stricken emperor built the world's most beautiful tomb as a monument to her memory. Shah Jahan was the fifth emperor of the Mughal dynasty. The Mughals...
Atlantis, 1989. — 76 p. — (Klassische Reiseziele). — ISBN10: 3881995730; ISBN13: 9783881995733. 150 Kilometer südlich der Hauptstadt New Delhi sind alle Märchenträume Indiens verwirklicht. Hier haben die islamischen Mogul-Kaiser, die das Land eroberten, ihre Residenzen Agra und Fathpur Sikri errichtet. Höhepunkt der indo-islamischen Architektur ist der Taj Mahal, das Mausoleum...
Reaktion Books Ltd., 2007. — 273 p. Taking the 1922 Bauhaus exhibition in Calcutta as the debut of European modernism in India, The Triumph of Modernism probes the intricate interplay of Western modernism and Indian nationalism in the evolution of colonial-era Indian art. Mitter casts his gaze across a myriad of issues, including the emergence of a feminine voice in Indian art,...
Doubleday, 2007. — 368 p. — ISBN10: 0385609477 / ISBN13: 978-0385609470. In 1631, the heartbroken Moghul Emperor, Shah Jahan, ordered the construction of a monument of unsurpassed splendour and majesty in memory of his beloved wife. Theirs was an extraordinary story of passionate love: although almost constantly pregnant - she bore him fourteen children - Mumtaz Mahal followed...
Penguin Books Ltd, 1953. — 508 p. In 1864 it was possible for a British professor of archaelogy to write of Indian sculpture: 'There is no temptation to dwell at length on the sculpture of Hindustan. It affords no assistance in tracing the history of art, and its debased quality deptrives it of all interest as a phase of fine art. It must be admitted, however, that the works...
Hari Sena Press Private Limited, 2012. — 278 p. — ISBN: 978-192510705 This is the most up to date book on the art, architecture, and history of the famous Ajanta caves. It includes chapters on political background, religious background, and epigraphy. It includes a summary of the latest research carried out in the last few decades. It brings together critical information from...
Metropolitan Museum of Art — 1987 — 320 p. — ISBN10: 0300086016 / ISBN13: 978-0300086010 The Emperors' Album: Images of Mughal India publishes the fifty leaves that form the Kevorkian Album, one of the world's great assemblages of Mughal art and calligraphy, for the first time. Thirty-nine leaves date from the 17th century; the other eleven leaves were created in the early 19th...
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1985. — 480 p. — ISBN: 0-87099-383-6 This book is a tribute to the rich and varied culture of India as represented in the later art of the subcontinent, dating from the fourteenth through the nineteenth century. Comprehensive in its conceptual framework, this presentation of three hundred thirty-three works brings together masterpieces of...
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