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Exhibition Review
The Great Mughals: Art, Architecture and Opulence
04/2025 | 1465 | 167
Pages: 389-393
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Reviewer:
Dutta, Parshati (Dutta, Parshati)
Subjects
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Great Britain
subjects:
Mughal / Paintings / Architecture / Tankards / Textiles / Metalwork / Textile pages manuscripts) / Illuminated manuscripts / Ivory / Metalwork
Reviewed Items
subjects:
The Great Mughals: Art, Architecture and Opulence Victoria and Albert Museum, London 9th November 2024–5th May 2025 | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
5. Dagger and scabbard, by Mughal court workshops. c.1620. Hilt: gold over iron, set with rubies, diamonds, emeralds, glass, ivory and agate; blade: watered steel; scabbard: gold over wood, set with rubies, emeralds and diamonds, 35.2 by 11.7 by 2.7 cm. (dagger); 25 by 5.6 by 2.7 cm. (scabbard). (Al- Sabah Collection, Kuwait; exh. Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
Attributed works:
5. Dagger and scabbard, by Mughal court workshops. c.1620. Hilt: gold over iron, set with rubies, diamonds, emeralds, glass, ivory and agate; blade: watered steel; scabbard: gold over wood, set with rubies, emeralds and diamonds, 35.2 by 11.7 by 2.7 cm. (dagger); 25 by 5.6 by 2.7 cm. (scabbard). (Al- Sabah Collection, Kuwait; exh. Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
Attributed works:
7. Squirrels in a plane tree, by Abu’l-Hasan and Mansur. c.1605–10. Opaque watercolour and gold on paper, 47 by 32.2 cm. (British Library, London; exh. Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
Attributed works:
8. Wine cup made for Emperor Shah Jahan, by Mughal court workshops. 1657. White nephrite jade, 18.7 by 14 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
Exhibition Review
Beyond the Page: South Asian Miniature Painting and Britain, 1600 to Now
04/2024 | 1453 | 166
Pages: 408–411
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Reviewer:
Khan, Zahra (Khan, Zahra)
Subjects
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
The Box, Plymouth, Great Britain
subjects:
South Asia / Miniatures (paintings) / Mughal / Contemporary art
Illustrations
Attributed works:
20. Because you’re worth it II, by the Singh Twins. 2022. Digital dyed fabric lightbox, 180 by 180 cm. (© The Singh Twins; private collection; exh. the Box, Plymouth).
Attributed works:
21. A lover waiting for his beloved, by Imran Qureshi. 1999. Gouache on paper, 25.4 by 19.1 cm. (Private collection; exh. the Box, Plymouth).
Non-western art unattributed:
22. The delivery of presents for Prince Dara- Shukoh’s wedding in December 1632. c.1640. Watercolour and metallic paints on paper, 33 by 23 cm. (Royal Collection, HM King Charles III; exh. the Box, Plymouth).
Article
Cross-cultural diplomacy: a Safavid shield in the Medici armoury
10/2022 | 1435 | 164
Pages: 968-975
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Author:
Rokhgar, Negar Sarah (Rokhgar, Negar Sarah)
Subjects
artists:
Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da
dates:
1590-1609
media:
Mother of pearl / Gilding
museums and institutions:
Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence, Italy
patrons:
Shah Abbas, 1571-1629
places:
Persia / Tuscany
sources:
Archives / Correspondence
styles:
Safavid / Mughal
styles:
Indo-Persian School
subjects:
Shields (Armour) / Gifts / Ottomans (people) / Crusades / East-West trade / Diplomacy / Military art and science / Medici family / Ferdinando I, Grand Duke of Tuscany, 1549-1609
Illustrations
Attributed works:
4. Detail of the painted ceiling in the Sala dell’Armeria (Room 21), Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence, depicting a Persian soldier by Ludovico Buti. 1588–89. (Photograph the author).
Attributed works:
6. Medusa, by Caravaggio. 1595–98. Oil on canvas applied on a wooden shield, 60 by 55 cm. (Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence).
Non-western art unattributed:
1. Shield. Persia, late 16th century. Gold damascened steel, Indian cane, silk, mother-of-pearl, leather and velvet, diameter 64.5 cm. (Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence).
Non-western art unattributed:
2. Detail of Fig.1, showing figures serving food to an authority on a higher seat.
Non-western art unattributed:
3. Detail of Fig.1, showing men on horseback and on foot using spears and arrows to hunt lions.
Non-western art unattributed:
5. Silk fragment with a figured motif. Yazd, Persia, late 16th or early 17th century. Silk lampas, 70.5 by 36 cm. (Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence).
Non-western art unattributed:
7. Shield. Persia, 17th century. Indian cane covered with silk, metal umbo painted in black with golden arabesque engravings and originally embellished with turquoises and other precious stones, 20 by 62 cm. (Palazzo Ducale, Venice).
Non-western art unattributed:
8. Tray with a scene of lovers in a pavilion. Gujarat, late 16th or early 17th century. Mother-of-pearl and lacquer on wood, diameter 43.5 cm. (Aga Khan Museum, Toronto).
Article
Maria Cosway’s ‘A Persian going to adore the sun’
04/2020 | 1405 | 162
Pages: 300-305
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Author:
Boucher, Diane (Boucher, Diane)
Subjects
artists:
Cosway, Maria / Cosway, Richard / Basawan / Madhu
dates:
1780-1789
museums and institutions:
Sir John Soane's Museum, London, Great Britain
subjects:
Mughal / Miniatures (paintings) / Mezzotints / Paintings / Christian iconography / Religious art / Zoroastrianism / Ackermann, Rudolph
subjects:
British art
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. A Persian going to adore the sun, by Maria Cosway. 1784. Oil on canvas, 61 by 73.7 cm. (Sir John Soane’s Museum, London).
Attributed works:
2. A woman worshipping the sun, from the Gulshan Album, attributed to Basawan. c.1590–95. Watercolour and gold on paper, 42.6 by 26.7 cm. (page). (Museum of Islamic Art, Doha).
Attributed works:
3. A woman worshipping the sun, attributed to Madhu. c.1595. Gouache with gold on paper, 15.5 by 10.4 cm. (Courtesy Oliver Forge and Brendan Lynch ltd., London).
Attributed works:
4. Hope (Spes), by Georges Reverdy. 1550–60. Engraving, 16.8 by 10.8 cm. (British Museum, London).
Attributed works:
5. Shah Alam, the Mughal Emperor reviewing the Third Brigade of the East India troops at Allahabad, by Tilly Kettle. 1781. Oil on canvas. (Victoria Memorial, Calcutta).
Attributed works:
6. A Persian going to adore the sun, by James Walker after Maria Cosway. 1784. Mezzotint, 35.2 by 40.3 cm. (British Museum, London).
Attributed works:
7. A Persian going to adore the sun, by Emma Smith after Maria Cosway. 1801. Mezzotint, 45 by 30 cm. (British Museum, London).
Attributed works:
8. A British minister worshipping the meridian sun, published by G. Humphrey. 1786. Etching, 22.8 by 26.8 cm. (British Museum, London).
Attributed works:
9. Detail of The Picture Room in the House of John Soane Esq, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, 1st March 1824, by Henry Shaw. (Repr. in J. Britton and A. Pugin: Illustrations of the Public Buildings of London, London 1825–28).
Article
The Este and the East: unpublished Chinese and Mughal objects from the Wunderkammer in Modena
12/2014 | 1341 | 156
Pages: 792-796
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Author:
Morena, Francesco (Morena, Francesco)
Subjects
dates:
1400-1599
patrons:
Este family
subjects:
Patronage / Collections, Private / Porcelain / Ceramics / Chinese / Mughal / Art objects / Lost works / Inventories / Jades / Kunstkammer
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Detail of a Chinese bowl from The feast of the gods, by Giovanni Bellini (National Gallery of Art, Washington)
Attributed works:
2. Detail of two Chinese bowls from The feast of the gods, by Giovanni Bellini (National Gallery of Art, Washington)
Non-western art unattributed:
4. Water container. Chinese. Twelfth to fourteenth centuries (Galleria Estense, Modena)
Non-western art unattributed:
5. Belt buckle. Chinese. Yuan dynasty (1279-1368). (Galleria Estense, Modena)
Non-western art unattributed:
6. Cup with silver handle. The cup, Mughal, late sixteenth-early seventeenth century; the handle, European, first half of the seventeenth century (Galleria Estense, Modena)
Non-western art unattributed:
7. Lacquer box with lid. Chinese. Ming dynasty, sixteenth-seventeenth centuries (Galleria Estense, Modena)
Western art unattributed:
3. The Cantino world map. Portuguese, 1502 (Biblioteca Estense Universitaria, Modena)
Exhibition Review
Mughal India. London
04/2013 | 1321 | 155
Pages: 271-273
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Reviewer:
Erskine, Robert (Erskine, Robert)
Subjects
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
British Museum, London, Great Britain
places:
London / England
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions / Indian painting / Mughal / Art
Illustrations
Attributed works:
63. Detail from The battle of Kanua in 1527, by Mahesh. c.1590s. Opaque watercolour on paper, 26.3 by 15.5 cm. (British Library, London, Or. 3714, fol.453).
Attributed works:
65. The weighing of Shah Jehan on his forty-second birthday, by Bhola. c.1635. From the Padshahnama. Opaque watercolour on paper, 32.2 by 22.9 cm. (image). (Royal collection, Windsor Castle; exh. British Library, London).
Attributed works:
66. Akbar ordering the slaughter to cease in 1578, attributed to Miskina. From the Akbar Nama. c.1595. Opaque watercolour on paper, 30.6 by 18.5 cm. (British Library, London, Johnson Album, 8,4).
Non-western art unattributed:
64. Sir David Ochterlony in Indian dress watching a nautch in his house in Delhi. c.1820. Opaque watercolour on paper, 22.2 by 31.8 cm. (British Library, London, Add. Or. 2).
Book Review
Visions of Mughal India – The Collection of Howard Hodgkin
07/2012 | 1312 | 154
Pages: 500-501
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Reviewer:
Beach, Milo Cleveland (Beach, Milo Cleveland)
Subjects
collectors and dealers:
Hodgkin, Howard
dates:
1500-1699 / 2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Great Britain
print:
Indian painting
subjects:
Indian painting / Exhibitions / Collecting / Collections, Private / Mughal / Mughal School
subjects:
Rajput
subjects:
Paintings / Drawings
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Visions of Mughal India – The Collection of Howard Hodgkin | author: Topsfield, Andrew
Illustrations
Non-western art unattributed:
31. Elephant trampling a horse. Deccan, Bijapur, c.1630–50. Brush drawing with gold and silver on marbled paper, 16.2 by 24.9 cm. (Collection of Howard Hodgkin).
Publication Received
The Majesty of Mughal Decoration: the art and architecture of Islamic India
11/2009 | 1280 | 151
Pages: 788
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Reviewer:
Branfoot, Crispin (Branfoot, Crispin)
Subjects
dates:
1500-1699
places:
India
print:
Islamic art
subjects:
Islamic art / Islamic / Architecture / Mughal School / Mughal
Reviewed Items
subjects:
The Majesty of Mughal Decoration: the art and architecture of Islamic India | author: Michell, George
Book Review
Gold, Silver and Bronze from Mughal India
08/1998 | 1145 | 140
Pages: 564-565
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Reviewer:
Rogers, J. M. (Rogers, J. M.; Rogers, John Michael; Rogers, Michael)
Subjects
places:
India
subjects:
Metalwork / Mughal
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Gold, Silver and Bronze from Mughal India | author: Zebrowski, Mark
Book Review
Flowers Underfoot: Indian Carpets of the Mughal Era
08/1998 | 1145 | 140
Pages: 565-566
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Reviewer:
Crill, Rosemary (Crill, Rosemary)
Subjects
places:
India
subjects:
Mughal / Textiles / Carpets
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Flowers Underfoot: Indian Carpets of the Mughal Era | author: Walker, Daniel
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