COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE: THE MUGHAL MANUSCRIPT WORKSHOP UNDER AKBAR

COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE: THE MUGHAL MANUSCRIPT WORKSHOP UNDER AKBAR

  • 29 Sep
    2021

    Southasian Painting

    Yael Rice

COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE: THE MUGHAL MANUSCRIPT WORKSHOP UNDER AKBAR

Image: Page from a manuscript of the Ethics of Nasir (Akhlaq-i Nasir) showing a court atelier. Produced in Lahore, Pakistan, c. 1590–95. Ink, opaque watercolour, and gold on paper, overall page: 23.9 cm × 14.2 cm. © The Aga Khan Museum, AKM288.12

During the reign of Emperor Akbar (r. 1556–1605), the Mughal manuscript workshop produced an enormous number of heavily illustrated manuscripts. This lecture will examine the nature of this extremely active workshop, focusing in particular on how the many members of the atelier--painters in particular--collaborated to produce these extremely elaborate, multifaceted objects. We will look at both the manuscripts themselves and contemporaneous textual sources that shed light on the cultural and political import of the imperial atelier.

This Lecture is part of the Postgraduate Southasian Painting Course “ARTS OF THE BOOK IN SOUTH ASIA”
Registration Fee for the course: Rs. 15,000 | Students: Rs. 10,000*.

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Duration -

September 29, 2021

Timing: 6:15 - 8:30 PM

Registrations Closed

Yael Rice

Yael Rice

Yael Rice is an assistant professor of art history and Asian languages and civilizations at Amherst College, Massachusetts. She specializes in the art and architecture of South Asia, Central Asia, and Iran, with a particular focus on manuscripts and other portable arts of the fifteenth through eighteenth centuries. She is the author of the forthcoming monograph Agents of Insight: Artists, Books, and Painting in Mughal South Asia (University of Washington Press) and articles on the Mughal manuscript workshop and the production and circulation of Persianate albums (muraqqa‘s) in South Asia and beyond.