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Publisher: Shubhi Publications, Gurgaon |
| Author Herbert J Stooke | |
| Language: English | |
| Pages: 87 (with Color Illustrations) | |
| Cover: HARDCOVER | |
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11.5x8.5 Inch |
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Weight 690 gm |
| Edition: 2025 | |
| ISBN: 9788182903623 | |
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HBQ783 |
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The
sequence of pictures, which is here reproduced in its entirety for the first
time, comprises some of the earliest Indian paintings ever to have reached this
country. As such they have a special interest as important landmarks in our
cultural connections. Their significance, however, goes considerably further,
for in style they reveal a tradition of painting, which, if strongly influenced
by the Mughals, is none the less un-Mughal in character. They thus provide
important evidence of the state of Indian painting, in the early seventeenth
century, in centres other than the Mughal capital. Finally, their subject
matter introduces us, at an early period, to a form of expression which in its
close association of poetry, music and painting is one of the most significant
contributions India has made to art. To explain these special characteristics
is the primary concern of Mr. Stooke to whom the credit must go for conceiving
and planning this book. His work has been brilliantly supplemented by Mr.
Khandalavala who brings the latest Indian research to bear on the problem of
the pictures' dating and provenance.
The Laud
Ragamala Album, Bikaner, and the Sociability of Subimperial Painting is a tale
of two present-day "Indiana Joneses" art historian Professor Molly
Emma Aitken and Connoisseur Shanane Davis who made an extraordinary discovery
regarding the most famous Indian muraqqa (album book with miniature paintings
and calligraphy) found in a European collection. In 1639, The Archbishop of
Canterbury, William Laud, or now believed could have been the English courtier,
diplomat, and state-sponsored pirate, Sir Kenelem Digby, gave a muraqqa
composed of poetry and paintings from early 17th Century India to the new Bodleian
Library (one of the oldest libraries now in Europe patronized by Sir Thomas
Bodley and opened to scholars in 1602). The extraordinary Laud Ragamala became
a holy grail of sorts for Indian art history studies.
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