Intimate Worlds: Indian Paintings from the Alvin O. Bellak Collection

by Darielle Mason

Book Overview

One of the world's finest private collections of Indian 'miniature' paintings, a promised bequest to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, is represented by some 90 works of art created in workshops across India over the course of four centuries. The paintings, all reproduced in full color and accompanied by a detailed scholarly examination, span the period from before the rise of Islamic Mughal rule in northern India during the 1500s to the heyday of the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0876331479
• ISBN13: 9780876331477
• Release Date: March 2001
• Publisher: Philadelphia Museum (PA)
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 3.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 11.3" x 11.3"