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Cross-cultural diplomacy: a Safavid shield in the Medici armoury
10/2022 | 1435 | 164
Pages: 968-975
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Rokhgar, Negar Sarah (Rokhgar, Negar Sarah)
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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).
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6. Medusa, by Caravaggio. 1595–98. Oil on canvas applied on a wooden shield, 60 by 55 cm. (Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence).
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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).
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2. Detail of Fig.1, showing figures serving food to an authority on a higher seat.
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3. Detail of Fig.1, showing men on horseback and on foot using spears and arrows to hunt lions.
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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).
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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).
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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).
Book Review
Mughal Occidentalism: Artistic Encounters between Europe and Asia at the Courts of India, 1580–1630. By Mika Natif
12/2019 | 1401 | 161
Pages: 1065-1066
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Bailey, Gauvin Alexander (Bailey, Gauvin Alexander)
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Mughal Occidentalism: Artistic Encounters between Europe and Asia at the Courts of India, 1580–1630 By Mika Natif. 310 pp. incl. 100 ills. (Brill, Leiden and Boston, 2018), £99. ISBN 978–90–04–37499–7. | :
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4. Seated European nude man, attributed to Ruqaya Banu, after an engraving by Jan Sadeler. Early 17th century or c.1630, Mughal India. Opaque watercolour and gold on paper, 16.9 by 9 cm. (Chester Beatty Library, Dublin).
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Eighteenth-century Mughal paintings from the Swinton collection
10/2017 | 1375 | 159
Pages: 789-799
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Losty, J. P. (Losty, J. P.)
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33. Mir Jafar Ali Khan watching dancing in his garden, attributed here to Purannath known as Hunhar II. 1763 (Swinton collection, on loan to the National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh).
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34. Mir Jafar Ali Khan hawking with his son Miran, signed by Purannath known as Hunhar II. c. 1760 (Victoria and Albert Museum, London, IM 13-1911).
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35. The Emperor Muhammad Shah hunting with hawks. Attributed here to the Mughal artist Chitarman. 1725-30 (Swinton collection, on loan to the National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh).
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23. Alivardi Khan presides over the adoption of Ikram al-Daula by Shahamat Jang, by a Murshidabad artist. c. 1748 (Swinton Collection, on loan to the National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh).
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24. Shah Alam's qalamdan (penbox). Mughal, probably from Kashmir. Mid-eighteenth century (Swinton collection, on loan to the National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh).
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26. Ikram al-Daula on horseback in a private procession with the state retinue depicted in the background, by a Murshidabad artist. 1750-53 (Swinton collection, on loan to the National Museum of Scotlad, Edinburgh).
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27. Shahamat Jang with his adopted son Ikram al-Daula, by a Murshidabad artist. 1748-50 (Swinton collection, on loan to the National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh).
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28. Nawab Alivardi Khan with his grandson and newphews, by a Murshidabad artist. 1748-50 (Swinton collection, on loan to the National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh).
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29. Shahamat Jang and Ikram al-Daula giving an evening musical entertainment, by a Murshidabad artist. 1748-50 (Swinton collection, on loan to the National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh).
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30. Shahamat Jang (here identified), by a Murshidabad artist. c. 1748 (Victoria and Albert Museum, London, IM D.1202-1903).
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31. Alivardi Khan presenting a turban ornament to Saulat Jang, observed by Shahamat Jang and Siraj al-Daula, by a Murshidabad artist. 1753-55 (Victoria and Albert Museum, London, IM D.1201-1903).
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32. Alivardi Khan in conversation with Shahamat Jang and Saulat Jang, observed by Siraj al-Daula and Ikram al-Daula, by a Murshidabad artist. 1750-53 (Victoria and Albert Museum, London, IM D.1175-1903).