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The Great Mughals Susan Stronge

The Great Mughals By Susan Stronge

The Great Mughals by Susan Stronge

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The Great Mughals presents, for the first time the opulent, internationalist culture of Mughal Hindustan in the age of its greatest emperors: Akbar (r.1556-1605), Jahangir (r.1605-1627) and Shah Jahan (r. 1628-1658).

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The Great Mughals: Art, Architecture and Opulence by Susan Stronge

The Great Mughals presents, for the first time the opulent, internationalist culture of Mughal Hindustan in the age of its greatest emperors: Akbar (r.1556-1605), Jahangir (r.1605-1627) and Shah Jahan (r. 1628-1658). Providing a compelling new narrative to describe the origins of Moghul art, it explores how a huge Iranian influence permeated the sophisticated craft traditions of the Indian subcontinent to create a distinctively Mughal court are included: from contemporary portraits to jewelled gold vessels and carpets. In chapters that conjure the unique dynamics of each reign, essays with historical sweep combine with texts focused on important objects to tell unexpected stories about a dynasty perhaps best known for commissioning the Taj Mahal.

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From the ramparts of the Agra fort, the Mughal Emperors once ruled over the greatest and most populous of all Muslim Empires. The Mughals claimed the loyalty of some 100 million subjects- five times the number of those ruled by their Ottoman rivals, and many times that ruled by their westerly neighbours, the Safavids of Isfahan.

Perhaps more than any other Islamic dynasty, the Mughals made their love of architecture and the arts a central part of their identity as rulers, believing that artists and architects were, in the words of the Emperor Humayun, "the delight of all the world.

In this magnificent catalogue of her astonishing V&A show, Susan Stronge brings together a beautifully curated treasury of the greatest wonders to survive from one of the most elegant and refined courts in world history. Mixing the art of Timurid Central Asia with that ofHindu Rajasthan and cross fertilising both of these with new ideas brought from Jesuit Portugal and Jacobean London, the Mughals created an entirely new aesthetic.

Their kharkhanas and khazanas became a new world of artistic expression marked by unprecedented experimentation in miniature painting and ivory and jade carving, a world of silken hangings and coats of gilded and inscribed Mughal armour. Here can be found teak furniture inlaid with mother of pearl, emerald-set daggers and diamond-studded scabbards, jade drinking cups in the form of antelope beside balustrades of Makrana marble studded with gleaming semi-precious stones the colour of pigeons blood, yellow topaz and lizard-green gems. This, truly, is the art of a golden age.

William Dalrymple,2nd July 2024

About Susan Stronge

Susan Stronge is Senior Curator, Asia Department at the V&A

Table of Contents

Preface, Susan Stronge -- Introduction, Rajeev Kinra -- THE REIGN OF AKBAR (1556-1605) -- The reign of Akbar and the creation of a new art, Susan Stronge -- The bronze and copper wares of Mughal Hindustan, Assadullah Souren Melikian-Chirvani -- The Portuguese and the global gem trade, Hugo Crespo -- A V&A Koran the imperial Mughal collection, Ursula Sims-Williams -- The Bargello mother-of-pearl shield and its European reception, Adriana Concin -- THE REIGN OF JAHANGIR (1605-27) and Nur Jahan -- The reign of Jahangir: The treasury of the world, Susan Stronge -- Sa'ida-ye Gilani and the jades of Hindustan, Assadullah Souren Melikian-Chirvani -- Mughal Carpets, Steven Cohen -- A Sufi ode from a vanished Lahore mosque, 1615-16, Assadullah Souren Melikian-Chirvani -- All that glitters: An early Mughal Zardozi canopy -- The making of the V&A Mughal coat, Avalon Fotheringham -- The zodiacal and portrait coins of Emperor Jahangir: Art and poetry in circulation, Shailendra Bhandare -- THE REIGN OF SHAH JAHAN (1628-58) -- The reign of Shah Jahan: the Garden of Paradise, Susan Stronge -- Mughal Textiles and Dress, Sylvia Houghteling -- Plumes, pets and pishkesh: Exotic animals and the Great Mughals, Peter Jarman -- The 'Fire-Bearing' sword of Emperor Jahangir: A Mughal dynastic heirloom, Assadullah Souren Melikian-Chirvani -- Chinese porcelain in the Mughal treasury, Ricarda Brosch -- Architectural drawings, Divia Patel -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Author biographies -- Acknowledgements -- Picture credits -- Index

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NGR9781838510367
9781838510367
1838510362
The Great Mughals: Art, Architecture and Opulence by Susan Stronge
Susan Stronge
New
Hardback
V & A Publishing
2024-10-24
304
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