Book by Victoria and Albert Museum

An introduction to Indian court painting

Arts & Photography

Topsfield, Andrew

History & Criticism

H.M.S.O.

Howard Hodgkin progressively refined his collection of Indian pictures over a period of more than 30 years. Its main strength lies in the Rajput schools, especially in those areas where the robust Rajput ethos and the imperial Mughul aesthetic overlapped and interfused, including a group of the animated elephant and hunting scenes from the court of Kota in Rajasthan. As a whole, the collection provides an unconventional and illuminating view of the expressive powers of Indian painters. This text, reissued to coincide with an exhibition at the British Museum, provides a complete survey and analysis of the individual works, which were selected by Howard Hodgkin himself in collaboration with Milo Cleveland Beach.

Indian Paintings and Drawings from Collection of Howard Hodgkin

Beach, Milo Cleveland

Thames&Hudson

Jagmandir on Lake Pichola (The City within a City, Volume I)

Literature & Fiction

Khera, Dipti

Mansukhani, Raju

Contemporary

Viking India

An Introduction to Indian Court Painting

Other Media

Stemmer House Pub

The Ashmolean's holdings of Indian art are among the most extensive in Britain. Arranged chronologically, this work is divided into three sections: Hindu, Buddhist and Jain sculpture; folk bronzes and paintings; and painting and decorative arts of the Mughal and British periods.

Indian Art in the Ashmolean Museum

Harle, J. C.

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Ashmolean Museum

The Ashmolean's holdings of Indian art are the most extensive in Britain after the great London collections of the British Museum and the V&A. This book is arranged chronologically in three separate sections - Hindu, Buddhist and Jain sculpture; folk bronzes and paintings; paintings and decorative arts of the Mughal and British periods.

Ashmolean Museum Oxford

These paintings reveal the resilient imagination of the traditional Mewar artists under the influences of the Mughal School and later of Western art and photography.

The City Palace Museum Udaipur: Paintings of Mewar Court Life (Museums of India)

Mapin Publishing Gp Pty Ltd

One of the great kingdoms of human history, the Mughal Empire is now lost to the relentless sweep of time. But the wealth of treasures left behind offers a lasting testament to the sumptuousness of its culture. Among the most notable of these treasures are the lush miniature paintings showing the splendor of Mughal imperial life. Andrew Topsfield examines these paintings that bear the influence of Indian, Islamic, and Persian styles and portray a variety of subjects, from hunting, royal banquets, and other scenes of imperial life to legends, battles, and mythic deities. Among the paintings featured in the book’s vibrant reproductions are illustrations from the celebrated Baharistan manuscript of 1595 and works created between the reign of Akbar and the fall of Shah Jahan in 1658—an era considered to be the height of Mughal art. For this new edition, Topsfield has made corrections and revisions reflecting new research.A fascinating and gorgeously illustrated study, Paintings from Mughal India will be an invaluable resource for all art scholars and anyone interested in the legacy of the Mughal Empire.

Paintings from Mughal India

Bodleian Library, University of Oxford

One of the great kingdoms of human history, the Mughal empire is now lost to the relentless sweep of time. But the wealth of art treasures the Mughals left behind is nonetheless a lasting testament to the sumptuousness of their culture. Among the most notable vestiges of their art are the lush miniature paintings of Mughal imperial life, and Andrew Topsfield explores a rich array of these painted works in Paintings from Mughal India.            Between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, the Mughal emperors presided over a flourishing cultural renaissance, and these miniature paintings vividly depict the splendor of this period. Topsfield examines the paintings’ unique blend of Indian, Islamic, and Persian styles and analyzes their varied subjects—ranging from hunting, royal banquets, and other scenes of imperial life to legendary tales, mythic deities, and battles. Among the paintings featured in the book’s vibrant reproductions are works created between the reign of Akbar and the fall of Shah Jehanan—an era considered to be the height of Mughal painting—and illustrations from the celebrated Baharistan manuscript of 1595. A fascinating and gorgeously illustrated study, Paintings from Mughal India will be an invaluable resource for all art scholars and anyone interested in the legacy of the Mughal Empire.

Thanks to its past benefactors, the University of Oxford's collections in the Bodleian Library and Ashmolean Museum are very rich in Indian paintings, especially of the Mughal period (c.1550-1850), in which court painting was raised to new levels of naturalistic refinement. The Bodleian has the older and larger collection, dating from Archbishop Laud's donation of an album of Mughal paintings in 1640. As well as some outstanding Mughal and Deccani masterpieces of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, the Bodleian has extensive holdings of the later provincial schools of the eighteenth century. The Ashmolean collection, formed since the 1950s, complements the Bodleian's in its representation of the Rajput schools of Rajasthan and the Punjab Hills.  This book presents thirty-eight paintings of the Mughal, Deccani and Rajput schools, from the period c.1560-1800. They include portraits of rulers and nobles, scenes of life at court, illustrations to romances and examples of the popular genre of 'ragamala', the illustration of musical modes.

Indian Paintings from Oxford (Ashmolean Handbooks)

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An introduction to Indian court painting

Indian Paintings and Drawings from Collection of Howard Hodgkin

Jagmandir on Lake Pichola (The City within a City, Volume I)

An Introduction to Indian Court Painting

Indian Art in the Ashmolean Museum

Indian Art in the Ashmolean Museum

The City Palace Museum Udaipur: Paintings of Mewar Court Life (Museums of India)

Paintings from Mughal India

Paintings from Mughal India

Indian Paintings from Oxford (Ashmolean Handbooks)