Master, Mentor, and Disciple: The Painter in Mughal South Asia
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04 Apr
05 Apr
2019
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Indian Aesthetics
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Yael Rice
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Image: Detail from a Gulshan Album folio, c. 1600, Staatsbibliothek, Berlin, Libri picturati A 117, Jahangir Album, f. 21r.
This seminar will consider the complex roles of the painter at the Mughal court from the sixteenth into the seventeenth centuries. It will begin with the very notion of the painter as it was articulated in pre-Mughal textual and visual sources, and then will shift course to examine the nature of the Mughal painter as a mentor, a collaborator, and, finally, a master of esoteric insight in the manuscript workshops of Akbar and his son Jahangir.
Day 1
- Chains of Tradition: The Idea of the Artist in the Islamicate World
- Communities of Practice: The Mughal Workshop as a Whole
Day 2
- Agents of Insight: Portraiture and the Limners of Form
- Masters of the Unseen World: Depicting the Emperor’s Dreams
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April 4, 5, 2019
Timing: 6:30 - 8:30 PM
Fees
Rs. 2,000 (For a 50% student discount, write to info@jp-india.org)
Registrations Closed
Yael Rice
Yael Rice is an assistant professor of art history and Asian languages and civilizations at Amherst College, Massachusetts. She specializes in the art and architecture of South Asia, Central Asia, and Iran, with a particular focus on manuscripts and other portable arts of the fifteenth through eighteenth centuries. She is the author of the forthcoming monograph Agents of Insight: Artists, Books, and Painting in Mughal South Asia (University of Washington Press) and articles on the Mughal manuscript workshop and the production and circulation of Persianate albums (muraqqa‘s) in South Asia and beyond.