The Giant Zumurrud Shah flees with his army by flying away on urns sent by sorcerers, Folio from the Hamza-Nama c. 1562-1577 - MAK/Georg Mayer Emeralds the size of eyeballs. Gold daggers set with ...
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Director's foreword -- Preface / Susan Stronge -- Introduction / Rajeev Kinra -- The reign of Akbar (r. 1556-1605) Tje reign of Akbar: the creation of a new art / Susan Stronge -- The bronze and ...
The first Mughal emperor, Babur, wrested power from the Lodi dynasty in 1526 and wrote one of the world’s outstanding memoirs; the second, Humayun, rallied from defeat and exile to restore Mughal ...
‘Great Mughals’ show in London reinforces colonial perspectives that museums claim to be questioning
“The Great Mughals: Art, Architecture and Opulence”, on display at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum until May 5, reanimates a familiar narrative in the historiography of South Asian art: one ...
India’s history is rich with the legacies of dynasties that once ruled vast territories, but for many descendants of these royal families, their wealth and status are now just distant memories. One ...
What explains the art market? How can we make sense of rich and powerful people spending so much surplus cash on small, portable things endowed with intangible values that even art critics struggle to ...
(© David Noton Photography / Alamy) There is some evidence, including a mention of a fort in an 11th-century collection of poems, for scholars to believe that Agra Fort has been around for more than 2 ...
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