080054 PS Case Study II/III: Painting in India under the Mughals (16th-17th c.) (2013W)
Continuous assessment of course work
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- Registration is open from Mo 16.09.2013 10:00 to Th 26.09.2013 14:00
- Deregistration possible until Mo 14.10.2013 14:00
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max. 25 participants
Language: English
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- Tuesday 08.10. 11:00 - 12:30 Seminarraum 2 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-20
- Tuesday 15.10. 11:00 - 12:30 Seminarraum 2 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-20
- Tuesday 22.10. 11:00 - 12:30 Seminarraum 2 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-20
- Tuesday 29.10. 11:00 - 12:30 Seminarraum 2 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-20
- Tuesday 05.11. 11:00 - 12:30 Seminarraum 2 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-20
- Tuesday 12.11. 11:00 - 12:30 Seminarraum 2 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-20
- Tuesday 19.11. 11:00 - 12:30 Seminarraum 2 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-20
- Tuesday 26.11. 11:00 - 12:30 Seminarraum 2 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-20
- Tuesday 03.12. 11:00 - 12:30 Seminarraum 2 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-20
- Tuesday 10.12. 11:00 - 12:30 Seminarraum 2 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-20
- Tuesday 17.12. 11:00 - 12:30 Seminarraum 2 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-20
- Tuesday 07.01. 11:00 - 12:30 Seminarraum 2 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-20
- Tuesday 14.01. 11:00 - 12:30 Seminarraum 2 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-20
- Tuesday 21.01. 11:00 - 12:30 Seminarraum 2 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-20
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Aims, contents and method of the course
After several centuries of division, India was largely unified under the Mughal empire (1526-1857). The Mughal emperors are renowned as great builders, but also as patrons of the fine arts, especially painting. This course aims to introduce to this facet of Mughal art. It will underline its debt to previous painting and especially book painting schools in the Islamic world and particularly Iran, and analyze its specificities. It will introduce to the main sources about, and collections of Mughal painting. Then, it will follow a chrono-thematic plan that will present the main developments as well as problems that are specific to this area, such as the genres and themes of Mughal painting; the multiplicity of its sources of inspiration, from Iran to indigenous schools and Renaissance Europe; the activities and workings of the imperial atelier and its individual members, from painters to illuminators, border decorators, bookbinders
. The course will also examine the imperial Mughal style in comparison to the local Rajput styles.
Assessment and permitted materials
Continuous assessment
Minimum requirements and assessment criteria
General introduction to the history of painting in India under the Mughals: patrons, workshops, artists, themes, styles
.. The major manuscripts: how they were made and used. How to analyze a painting in this context: primary and secondary literature; codicological, iconographical and stylistic analysis.
Examination topics
Reading-historiography; codicology; text-image analysis; iconography and style analysis; comparison between different illustrated copies of the same text.
Reading list
Susan STRONGE, Painting for the Mughal Emperor. The Art of the Book 1560 1660 (London, 2002); Som Prakash VERMA, Painting the Mughal Experience (New Delhi, 2005); Milo Cleveland BEACH, Eberhard FISCHER, and B. N. GOSWAMY (ed)., Masters of Indian painting, 2 vol. (Zurich, 2011); Example of monograph: John SEYLLER, Workshop and Patron in Mughal India. The Freer Ramayana and Other Illustrated Manuscripts of 'Abdal-Rahim (Zurich and Washington D.C., I999).
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