Welch, Stuart Cary — Imperial Mughal Painting

Book Good No Jacket George Blaziller, New York English text.; Paperback.; 28 x 20.3 cm.; 0.5 kg.; 119 pages with 5 black-and-white and 40 colour illustrations.; Used with signs of wear on the exterior and interior. The exterior shows wear marks, edge wear, scuffs and scratches. Two bumps, one at the top right side of the front cover and the other on the bottom of the spine. Small stain at the top right side of the front cover, which affects all pages up to the back cover. Remaining interior with minor signs of wear. Good readable/working copy.; Mughal patrons and artists doted on the world and its inhabitants. No pains were spared to record them realistically in life-oriented pictures, usually of people and animals. The people are exceptional-some of mankind's most extraordinary worldlings and wisest saints, shown in depth, to be scrutinized inside and out. All the folios reproduced here were made for the Mughal emperors of India or their immediate families during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. They were intense essences of their culture, showing emperors and their courts in elaborate settings, scenes of suspense and excitement depicting hunts, demons, and elegant elephants, as well as a group of striking genre scenes in which the subtle rendering of light, learned from European painting, imparts a poetic quality that provides a striking contrast to the highly finished treatment of the royal portraits. The Introduction and Commentaries to the individual folios reproduced here have been provided by Stuart Cary Welch of The Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University.