Portraiture in South Asia Since the Mughals: Art, Representation and History

by Crispin Branfoot

One of the most remarkable artistic achievements of the Mughal Empire was the emergence in the early seventeenth century of portraits of identifiable individuals, unprecedented in both South Asia and the Islamic world. Appearing at a time of increasing contact between Europe and Asia, portraits from the reigns of the great Mughal emperor-patrons Akbar, Jahangir
and Shah Jahan are among the best-known paintings produced in South Asia. In the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1780767242
• ISBN13: 9781780767246
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.3"