Arts of Mughal India : Studies in Honour of Robert Skelton

by Crill, Rosemary; Stronge, Susan; Topsfield, Andrew

• ISBN13: 9781890206710
• ISBN10: 1890206717
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-09-30
• Publisher: Mapin

Table of Contents

Editors' preface and acknowledgements	9	(2)
Three Memoirs
Robert Skelton	11	(3)
Pramod Chandra
Travels with Robert	14	(6)
Simon Digby
Generous Mr Skelton: Reminiscences of a Yankee anglophile senior citizen	20	(5)
Stuart Cary Welch
Select bibliography of Robert Skelton's writings	25	(3)
Essays
A Leaf of the Qissa-i Amir Hamza in the University of Virginia Art Museum and some thoughts on early Mughal painting	28	(8)
Daniel Ehnbom
Zal in the Simurgh's Nest: A painting by Mir Sayyid `Ali for a Shahnama illustrated for Emperor Humayun	36	(6)
Stuart Cary Welch
Pages from an Akbarnama	42	(14)
Linda York Leach
An Akbar-period Devi Mahatmya? Notes on a group of paintings of the Great Goddess	56	(11)
B.N. Goswamy
Notes on four illustrations of the Birla Razmnama and their counterparts in other Razmnama manuscripts	67	(13)
Asok Kumar Das
Three paintings by Abu'l Hasan in a manuscript of the Bustan of Sa'di	80	(15)
Terence McInerney
The Walters Art Museum Diwan of Amir Hasan Dihlawi and Salim's atelier at Allahabad	95	(16)
John Seyller
Jahangir's Album: Some clarifications	111	(8)
Milo Cleveland Beach
A painting from the Jahangirnama and its compositional parallels with an engraving from the Evangelicae Historiae Imagines	119	(10)
Friederike Weis
`Far from the arte of painting': An English amateur artist at the court of Jahangir	129	(9)
Susan Stronge
On the borders: A possible source for naturalistic floral decoration at the Mughal court	138	(3)
Barbara Brend
Architectural relics of the Catholic missionary era in Mughal India	141	(11)
Gauvin Alexander Bailey
The `Moghuleries' of the Millionenzimmer, Schonbrunn Palace, Vienna	152	(16)
Ebba Koch
The treasury of Sultan Bahadur of Gujarat: Notes for the study of northern Indian jewellery in the sixteenth century	168	(8)
Nuno Vassallo e Silva
A lacquer pen-box by Manohar: An example of late Safavid-style painting in India	176	(14)
Navina N. Haidar Haykel
The kundan technique: The Indian jeweller's unique artistic treasure	190	(13)
Manuel Keene
`Le Tapis Moghol': A seventeenth-century Deccani kalamkari	203	(10)
Rosemary Crill
A group of painted panels from Jaisalmer	213	(10)
Rai Anand Krishna
Imperial Mughal tolerance of Jainism and Jain painting activity in Gujarat	223	(11)
Shridhar Andhare
Mughalized portraits of Bilaspur royalty in the second half of the seventeenth century	234	(14)
Catherine Glynn
The kalavants on their durrie: Portraits of Udaipur court musicians, 1680-1730	248	(16)
Andrew Topsfield
Mural paintings of the Krishnalila at Karwar	264	(14)
Joachim K. Bautze
The cartography of power: Mapping genres in Jodhpur painting	278	(8)
Debra Diamond
The Delhi Palace in 1846: A panoramic view	286
Mazhar `Ali Khan
J.P. Losty