Yale University Press, 2010. — 351 p. The genre of Rajput painting flourished between the 16th and 19th centuries in the kingdoms that ruled what is now the Indian state of Rajasthan (place of rajas). Rajput paintings depicted the nobility and court spectacle as well as scenes from Krishna’s life, the Hindu epics, and court poetry. Many Rajput kingdoms developed distinct...
University of Minnesota Press, 1980. — 273 p. Though scholars have extensive knowledge of the art that flourished during Pala rule in Eastern India (ca. 800-1200), little is known about Eastern Indian art during the preceding 500 years. This half-millennium includes the period of the Gupta dynasty and the two centuries that bridge Gupta and Pala rule, when no single dynasty...
Terra-Verlag, 1963. — 510 S. Die Kunst eines fernen Landes kennenzulernen ist ein vielfältig anregendes Erlebnis, denn Kunstwerke stellen nicht nur ästhetische Schöpfungen dar, sondern erschließen dem Betrachter die gesamte Kultur, die Gedanken- und Gefühlswelt eines Volkes. Ervin Baktay, der sich viele Jahre in Indien aufhielt und sein Leben dem Studium der Kunst dieses Landes...
BAR Publishing, 2008. — 130 p. — (BAR International Series 1888). The papers included here address various issues that reflect manifold ways of approaching study of the Buddha image. Most were presented in July 2007 during the Nineteenth International Conference of the Association of South Asia Archaeologists in Europe. This volume intends to cast light on numerous possible...
Harvard University Press, 1987. — 181 p. One of the minor miracles of art history is the extraordinary flowering of Indian painting that began in the mid-sixteenth century under the early Mughal emperors of Indian, notably Akbar the Great. Only in recent decades has the consummate artistry of early Mughal painting come to be widely appreciated in the West. Scholars have noted...
The Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, 1982. — 248 p. Books have been treasured for centuries in the Islamic world, as precious objects worthy of royal admiration. This was especially true in Muslim India, where generations of Mughal emperors commissioned and collected volumes of richly illuminated manuscripts and lavishly illustrated folios. They assembled workshops of the...
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2007. — viii, 115 p. — ISBN: 9781588392244. Ancient Gandhara, located in the rugged foothills of the Himalayas in what is today northwest Pakistan and eastern Afghanistan, was for centuries a thriving center of trade along the Silk Road linking China, South Asia, and the Mediterranean. Gandhara's strategic position and wealth attracted many...
Archaeopress, 2022. — 144 p. Light of Devotion: Oil Lamps of Kerala, an in-depth study of the medieval oil lamps of Kerala and beyond, contributes a new chapter to the history of Indian art. These art objects are primary sources for a broader discussion of the ritual use of Hindu oil lamps, their related and unique cultural history, their motifs, style and subject matter. From...
Orient Longman, 1981 — 370 с. Descroption of iconography in the Vaishnava sect in South India The Bacground Vaishava Concepts in the Tamil Country c. 300 BC — c. AD 600 The Pancaviras Narayana Visnu The Ten Avataras Minor Avataras Other Form of Visnu The Twentyfour Forms of Visnu Goddesses Minor Deities Alvars and Acaryas The Weapons of Visnu Syncretic Forms The Trends in...
University of Washington Press, 2019. — 286 p. From approximately the third century BCE through the thirteenth century CE, the remote mountainous landscape around the glacial sources of the Ganga (Ganges) River in the Central Himalayas in northern India was transformed into a region encoded with deep meaning, one approached by millions of Hindus as a primary locus of...
Wachington: National Gallery of Art, 1985 – 224 p.
The Sculpture of India assembles 100 works spanning four millennia in an effort to clarify and focus the achievements of India’s artistic tradition. The objects chosen range from the middle of the third millennium BC to approximately the 14th century AD, when vigorous foreign influence from Iran and central Asia imbued much of...
Charles River Editors, 2014. — 57 p. The Taj Mahal - The History of India’s Most Famous Monument by Charles River Editors explains the Taj Mahal's construction history and cultural influences in a most concise and compelling manner. This amazing book includes footnotes and a bibliography for further reading as well as splendid pictures. “Should guilty seek asylum here, Like one...
Charles River Editors, 2014. — 57 p. The Taj Mahal - The History of India’s Most Famous Monument by Charles River Editors explains the Taj Mahal's construction history and cultural influences in a most concise and compelling manner. This amazing book includes footnotes and a bibliography for further reading as well as splendid pictures. “Should guilty seek asylum here, Like one...
Charles River Editors, 2014. — 57 p. The Taj Mahal - The History of India’s Most Famous Monument by Charles River Editors explains the Taj Mahal's construction history and cultural influences in a most concise and compelling manner. This amazing book includes footnotes and a bibliography for further reading as well as splendid pictures. “Should guilty seek asylum here, Like one...
Charles River Editors, 2014. — 57 p. The Taj Mahal - The History of India’s Most Famous Monument by Charles River Editors explains the Taj Mahal's construction history and cultural influences in a most concise and compelling manner. This amazing book includes footnotes and a bibliography for further reading as well as splendid pictures. “Should guilty seek asylum here, Like one...
Charles River Editors, 2014. — 57 p. The Taj Mahal - The History of India’s Most Famous Monument by Charles River Editors explains the Taj Mahal's construction history and cultural influences in a most concise and compelling manner. This amazing book includes footnotes and a bibliography for further reading as well as splendid pictures. “Should guilty seek asylum here, Like one...
Sundeep Prakashan, 1998. — 115 p. This Book Traces The History Of The Growth And Development Of The Art That Flourished At Sanchi Bharhut, Bodh-Gaya, Karla, Bhaja, Pithalkhora, Amaravati, Nagarjunakonda, Etc. Which Later Culminated In The Classical Art Of The Guptas.
MFA Publications, 2006. — 246 p. From refined portraits of resplendent maharajas to earthy depictions of divine rogues cavorting with milkmaids, Indian miniature paintings depict the world as it should be: radiant, plentiful and passionate. These manuscript illustrations combine vibrant color with exquisite delicacy, offering immediate impact while also rewarding lengthy...
University of Washington Press, 2015. — 280 p. This deft and lively study by Robert DeCaroli explores the questions of how and why the earliest verifiable images of the historical Buddha were created. In so doing, DeCaroli steps away from old questions of where and when to present the history of Buddhism’s relationship with figural art as an ongoing set of negotiations within...
University of Washington Press, 2015. — 280 p. This deft and lively study by Robert DeCaroli explores the questions of how and why the earliest verifiable images of the historical Buddha were created. In so doing, DeCaroli steps away from old questions of where and when to present the history of Buddhism’s relationship with figural art as an ongoing set of negotiations within...
Columbia University Press, 2009. — 218 p. The sensuous human form-elegant and eye-catching-is the dominant feature of premodern Indian art. From the powerful god Shiva, greatest of all yogis and most beautiful of all beings, to stone dancers twisting along temple walls, the body in Indian art is always richly adorned. Alankara (ornament) protects the body and makes it complete...
Princeton University Press, 2021. — 339 p. The first book to put the sacred and sensuous bronze statues from India’s Chola dynasty in social context From the ninth through the thirteenth century, the Chola dynasty of southern India produced thousands of statues of Hindu deities, whose physical perfection was meant to reflect spiritual beauty and divine transcendence. During...
Princeton University Press, 2021. — 339 p. The first book to put the sacred and sensuous bronze statues from India’s Chola dynasty in social context From the ninth through the thirteenth century, the Chola dynasty of southern India produced thousands of statues of Hindu deities, whose physical perfection was meant to reflect spiritual beauty and divine transcendence. During...
Jaca Book, 2020. — 215 p. — (Arte Mondo). Questo testo di Michel Delahoutre, con le ampie didascalie di lettura iconografica, resta il volume di riferimento per introdurre all'arte indiana. Arte alla quale ci si può accostare solo attraverso una meditata conoscenza dell'induismo e del buddhismo. È paradossale, per il nostro modo di concepire l'arte, come i criteri estetici...
The Asia Society Galleries, 1993. — 298 p. A comprehensive catalogue on temple sculptures from North India from the 8th to the 13th centuries, featuring rare stone sculptures from Indian and American museum and private collections. It studies the complexity of diverse forms in a medieval Indian temple as well as fluid functional relationship between different types of forms. It...
Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1985. — 990 p. — (Studies in South Asian Culture 12). Dr Thomas Donaldson's exhaustive study of Hindu Temple Art of Orissa, will appear in three volumes which together form Volume XII of the series. In Volume I, presented here, he undertakes an illuminating analysis of the temple architecture of Orissa, drawing into his scrutiny many structures that have not...
Skira, 2009. — 294 p. This remarkable catalogue represents one of the richest-known repertoires of Indian painting, as it documents almost all the schools of painting in India, and in particular those of the Rajput courts. The most significant miniatures come from the courts of the three main dynasties of Rajasthan, those of the Sisodia, Rathore, and Kachwaha clans. The...
Greystone Press, 1964. — 278 p. — (Art of the world 1). India is a subcontinent of Asia, approximately the size of Europe without Russia, and its civilization can be traced back over at least five thousand years. During these millennia art has flourished in all those vast territories. Innumerable monuments are still known to us, and yet they represent only a diminutive fraction...
Allen Lane, 2014. — 560 р. This magnificent, lavishly illustrated book by India's most eminent and perceptive art historian, B.N. Goswamy, will open readers' eyes to the wonders of Indian painting and show them new ways of seeing and appreciating art. An illuminating introductory essay, ‘A Layered World', explains the themes and emotions that inspired Indian painters, the values...
Mapin Publishing, 1995. — 366 p. A collection of twenty-five essays by international scholars written to celebrate the contribution to the study of Indian art of Douglas Barrett, former keeper of Indian art at the British Museum. The essays are organized in five sections: Part 1: Early India; Part 2: North Indian sculpture; Part 3: South Indian sculpture; Part 4: Indian...
NY: The Metropolitan museum of art, 2011. — 226 p. This vividly illustrated publication features 110 works by many of the most eminent painters in the history of Indian art. These remarkable paintings, dating from 1100 to 1900, were selected according to identifiable artists, and they refute the long-held view of anonymous authorship in Indian art. Traditionally, Indian paintings...
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2011. — 338 p. Between the fourteenth and the seventeenth century, the Deccan plateau of south-central India was home to a series of important and highly cultured Muslim courts. Subtly blending elements from Iran, West Asia, and sometimes Europe, as well as southern and northern India, the arts produced under these sultanates are markedly different...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2015. — 386 p. The vast Deccan plateau of south-central India stretches from the Arabian Sea to the Bay of Bengal. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the region was home to several major Muslim kingdoms and became a nexus of international trade — most notably in diamonds and textiles, through which the sultanates attained remarkable...
Princeton University Press, 2022. — 280 p. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, a vast array of textiles circulated throughout the Mughal Empire. Made from rare fibers and crafted using virtuosic techniques, these exquisite objects animated early modern experience, from the intimate, sensory pleasure of garments to the monumentality of imperial tents. The Art of Cloth in...
Weatherhill, 1985. — 596 p.
To scholars in the field, the need for an up-to-date overview of the art of South Asia has been apparent for decades. Although many regional and dynastic genres of Indic art are fairly well understood, the broad, overall representation of India's centuries of splendor has been lacking. The Art of Ancient India is the result of the authors' aim to...
Dayton Art Institute in association with the University of Washington Press, 1990. — 600 p. Since the time of Buddha’s enlightenment in the sixth century, B.C. countless pious visitors to Bodh Gaya have departed from the site carrying with them dark, shining leaves from the sacred bodhi tree. Safeguarded in pockets, books, scraps of cloth, and other makeshift presses, these...
University of Washington Press, 2021. — 288 p. Stone figures hardened by ascetic discipline and heroic effort face north in deep shadow. There they meet the gazes of the same gods and goddesses but with gentler bodies enacting grace, warmth, seduction, and marriage, drenched in sunlight, facing south. These figures adorn the eighth-century Kailasanatha temple complex in...
University of Washington Press, 2021. — 288 p. Stone figures hardened by ascetic discipline and heroic effort face north in deep shadow. There they meet the gazes of the same gods and goddesses but with gentler bodies enacting grace, warmth, seduction, and marriage, drenched in sunlight, facing south. These figures adorn the eighth-century Kailasanatha temple complex in...
Duke University Press Books, 2011 — 232 p. — ISBN10: 0822349221 / ISBN13: 978-0822349228 Built in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, India’s Mughal monuments—including majestic forts, mosques, palaces, and tombs, such as the Taj Mahal—are world renowned for their grandeur and association with the Mughals, the powerful Islamic empire that once ruled most of the...
Oxford University Press, 2001. — 339 p. This volume brings together twelve studies, written between 1982 and 1997, on Mughal art. Analyzing the form and content of the artwork in its context, the author offers a new interpretation of the Mughal Gardens; the Taj Majal; palaces at Agra, Delhi, and Lahore; and the Padshahnama.
Thames & Hudson, 2006. — 148 p. The Taj Mahal is the unchallenged masterpiece of Mughal art and one of the most famous buildings in the world. Yet until now, there has been no full analysis of its architecture and meaning. Ebba Koch, the first western scholar since India's independence permitted to take measures of the complex, has been working on the palaces and gardens of...
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1997. — 152 p.
Paintings of extraordinary beauty and variety were made for the many royal courts of India during a golden age that unfolded in the sixteenth century and lasted well into the British period. In India, two artistic traditions converged. The indigenous Rajput culture produced exuberant, vibrantly colored, boldly patterned illustrations...
Brill, 2011. — 240 p. — (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 2. South Asia 25). In the study of Indian art prior to the Mughal period, portraiture has so far been much neglected, when its existence has not simply been denied. This book is an attempt to reassess this issue, by showing that portraits have existed in great number in early India, since probably the first artistic...
Bloomsbury Academic India, 2020. — 304 p. Art and History: Texts, Contexts and Visual Representations in Ancient and Early Medieval India seeks to locate the historical contexts of premodern Indian art traditions. The volume examines significant questions, such as: - What were the purposes served by art? - How were religious and political ideas and philosophies conveyed through...
Bloomsbury Academic India, 2020. — 304 p. Art and History: Texts, Contexts and Visual Representations in Ancient and Early Medieval India seeks to locate the historical contexts of premodern Indian art traditions. The volume examines significant questions, such as: - What were the purposes served by art? - How were religious and political ideas and philosophies conveyed through...
Mikaya Press, 2008 — 48 p. — ISBN10: 1931414203 / ISBN13: 978-1931414203 Shah Jahan, ruler of India, murdered three of his brothers in his bloody rise to power. Yet when his beloved wife, Mumtaz Mahal, suddenly died, the grief-stricken emperor built the world's most beautiful tomb as a monument to her memory. Shah Jahan was the fifth emperor of the Mughal dynasty. The Mughals...
Atlantis, 1989. — 76 p. — (Klassische Reiseziele). — ISBN10: 3881995730; ISBN13: 9783881995733. 150 Kilometer südlich der Hauptstadt New Delhi sind alle Märchenträume Indiens verwirklicht. Hier haben die islamischen Mogul-Kaiser, die das Land eroberten, ihre Residenzen Agra und Fathpur Sikri errichtet. Höhepunkt der indo-islamischen Architektur ist der Taj Mahal, das Mausoleum...
Cambridge University Press, 1994. — 263 p. Partha Mitter's book is a pioneering study of the history of modern art on the Indian subcontinent from 1850 to 1922. The author tells the story of Indian art during the Raj, set against the interplay of colonialism and nationalism. The work addresses the tensions and contradictions that attended the advent of European naturalism in...
Oxford University Press, 2001. — 153 p. This concise yet lively new survey guides the reader through 5,000 years of Indian art and architecture. A rich artistic tradition is fully explored through the Hindu, Buddhist, Islamic, Colonial, and contemporary periods, incorporating discussion of modern Bangladesh and Pakistan, tribal artists, and the decorative arts. Combining a...
Author: Olivia Fraser Illustrator: Olivia Fraser Translator: Pratham Books "Сделано в Индии" — детская книга о регионах Индии и традиционных занятиях местных жителей. Полезная лексика, интересные факты, красивые картинки! This book was made possible by Pratham Books' StoryWeaver platform. Content under Creative Commons licenses can be downloaded, translated and can even be used to...
Reaktion Books Ltd., 2007. — 273 p. Taking the 1922 Bauhaus exhibition in Calcutta as the debut of European modernism in India, The Triumph of Modernism probes the intricate interplay of Western modernism and Indian nationalism in the evolution of colonial-era Indian art. Mitter casts his gaze across a myriad of issues, including the emergence of a feminine voice in Indian art,...
Koehler & Amelang, 1982. — 236 S. Der vorliegende Band stellt sich als Aufgabe, den Leser, der nicht umgehend nach Indien fahren kann, in das Wesen und die künstlerischen Probleme der Kunstschulen von Ajanta und Elura einzuführen. Dabei stehen nicht die Gemälde, sondern die Plastik, das Ornament und die Bauformen der kaum veröffentlichten Höhlendaten in Text und Bild (146...
Koehler & Amelang, 1982. — 236 S. Der vorliegende Band stellt sich als Aufgabe, den Leser, der nicht umgehend nach Indien fahren kann, in das Wesen und die künstlerischen Probleme der Kunstschulen von Ajanta und Elura einzuführen. Dabei stehen nicht die Gemälde, sondern die Plastik, das Ornament und die Bauformen der kaum veröffentlichten Höhlendaten in Text und Bild (146...
Doubleday, 2007. — 368 p. — ISBN10: 0385609477 / ISBN13: 978-0385609470. In 1631, the heartbroken Moghul Emperor, Shah Jahan, ordered the construction of a monument of unsurpassed splendour and majesty in memory of his beloved wife. Theirs was an extraordinary story of passionate love: although almost constantly pregnant - she bore him fourteen children - Mumtaz Mahal followed...
Brill, 2007. — 539 p. — (Studies in Asian Art and Archaeology 25). This volume provides the first comprehensive analysis and chronology of the earliest known stone sculptures from the north Indian city of Mathura, dating prior to the famous Kushan period. It includes numerous new attributions of objects based primarily on epigraphic and visual analysis. The sculptures...
Mapin Publishing, 2007. — 108 p. Elephants occupy a special place in the life and art of India. Since ancient times, they have been treasured and pampered as the ultimate beasts of burden, venerated as the vehicles of gods and kings and even worshipped in their own right. Their legendary attributes of -strength, intelligence, nobility and longevity are eulogized in myth, epic...
Helikon Kiadó, 1983. — 160 o. — (A múlt születése). Az indiai civilizációról sokan úgy gondolják, hogy az csupán az indiai szubkontinens háromszög formájú földdarabján bontakozott ki és teremtette meg a máig élő vallások, filozófiai áramlatok sokféleségét, a varázsos irodalmat, a páratlan szépségű templomépítészetet és képzőművészetet. Philip Rawson arra vállalkozott, hogy a...
Thames and Hudson, 1996. — 216 p. — (Univers de l'art). Le tantrisme est une manière de penser et d'agir qui a pénétré la totalité de l'hindouisme et certaines écoles bouddhistes et jaïna, dans les domaines des idées, des pratiques religieuses et de l'art. Les origines du tantrisme remontent sans doute au Ier siècle de notre ère, mais c'est entre le viiie et le xive siècle que...
Thames and Hudson, 1978. — 217 p. — (World of Art). Coming from India, yet having links with recent trends in Western art, Tantra combines eroticism, mathematics, magic and metaphysics in a view of life which offers a uniquely successful antidote to the anxieties of our time. This first complete survey of Tantric art, originally published in 1973, shows through text and...
Archaeopress, 2018. — 173 p. Proceedings of the First International Workshop of the Gandhāra Connections Project, University of Oxford, 23rd-24th March, 2017 Since the beginning of Gandhāran studies in the nineteenth century, chronology has been one of the most significant challenges to the understanding of Gandhāran art. Many other ancient societies, including those of Greece...
Archaeopress, 2019. — 202 p. Proceedings of the Second International Workshop of the Gandhāra Connections Project, University of Oxford, 22nd-23rd March, 2018 Gandhāran art is usually regarded as a single phenomenon – a unified regional artistic tradition or ‘school’. Indeed it has distinctive visual characteristics, materials, and functions, and is characterized by its...
Penguin Books Ltd, 1953. — 508 p. In 1864 it was possible for a British professor of archaelogy to write of Indian sculpture: 'There is no temptation to dwell at length on the sculpture of Hindustan. It affords no assistance in tracing the history of art, and its debased quality deptrives it of all interest as a phase of fine art. It must be admitted, however, that the works...
Penguin Books Ltd, 1984. — 518 p. After describing the artistic heritage of the ancient cities of Harappa and Mohenjodaro, Dr Rowland traces the artistic story of the civilizations that followed through fifty centuries. He pays special attention to the influence of religion on the history of architecture, sculpture, and painting in India and the surrounding countries from their...
Harrassowitz, 2000. — 283 p. The three volumes study entitled "Erzahlende Wandmalerein/Narrative Wail-paintings" by Dieter Schlingloff is without doubt one of the most important publications in the stud of Indian art history to appear in many years. The documentation, however, extends far beyond the narrative paintings. Vol. II Supplement contains exhaustive annotated...
Brill, 2013. — 329 p. — (Brill's Indological Library 43). Akira Shimada's book is a welcome and timely addition to the nearly two centuries of research on the Amaravati Mahastupa (great stupa), and a more recent but expanding literature on the archaeology of early historic South Indian Buddhism. The study of this remarkable Buddhist monument presents a rather unique case for...
Hari Sena Press Private Limited, 2012. — 278 p. — ISBN: 978-192510705 This is the most up to date book on the art, architecture, and history of the famous Ajanta caves. It includes chapters on political background, religious background, and epigraphy. It includes a summary of the latest research carried out in the last few decades. It brings together critical information from...
Marg Foundation, 2009. — 340 p. The demand for Modern, Post-Modern and Contemporary Indian art among collectors all over the world has spiralled in the past few years. This book covers major trends in Indian art over the last 150 years, taking in a broad sweep the shift from traditional forms of painting through the mechanical reproduction to 21st century Contemporary art.
Brill, 2013. — 547 p. — (Handbook of Oriental Studies: Section 2, South Asia 28). The Hindu-Buddhist Sculpture of Ancient Kashmir and Its Influences is primarily based on the study of the largely unpublished corpus of sculpture, mostly of stone, in the Sri Pratap Singh Museum in Srinagar, and of other examples in situ elsewhere in the valley. The disparate nature and...
Harry N. Abrams, 1977. — 587 p. A book which illuminates the aesthetic heritage of the Indian subcontinent, from its beginnings before recorded history, through its great flowering under the powerful Hindu dynasties. Each chapter is a self-contained essay on a particular aspect of Indian culture, history or religion. The author presents each work in its cultural environment,...
Clarendon Press, 1911. — 578 p. The purpose of this book is to give for the first time a chronological, descriptive History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon from the third century B.C. to the present day, with criticism of the aesthetic merits of the works described. The art history is treated throughout in close connexion with political and religious revolutions. In criticism...
Parkstone International, 2010. — 256 p. India, with its extensive and colourful history, has produced an artistic tradition in many forms: architecture, painting, sculpture, calligraphy, mosaics, and artisan products all display the country’s cultural, religious and philosophical richness. From Hinduism, with its pantheon of imagery of gods, goddesses, animals and many other...
Parkstone International, 2014. — 256 p. If the ‘Palace of Love’, otherwise known as the Taj Mahal, is considered to be the emblem of Mughal Art, it is by no means the sole representative. Characterised by its elegance, splendor, and Persian and European influences, Mughal Art manifests itself equally well in architecture and painting as in decorative art.
Brill, 2011. — 435 p. — (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 2 South Asia 18/1; Ajanta: History and Development 18/1). The twenty-nine Buddhist caves near Ajanta form a devotional complex which ranks as one of the world's most startling achievements, created at the very apogee of India's Golden Age. Ajanta: History and Development, appears as part of the series Handbook of...
Brill, 2006. — vi, 346 p. — (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 2 South Asia 18/2; Ajanta: History and Development 18/2). Volume Two begins with writings by some of the most important critics of Walter Spink's conclusions, interspersed with his own responses, using a thorough analysis of the great Cave 26 to support his assertions. The author then turns to matters of...
Brill, 2005. — 273 p. — (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 2 South Asia 18/3; Ajanta: History and Development 18/3). Volume Three in the Ajanta series focuses on what the site tells us about what happened in the months following the death of emperor Harisena (478 A.D.). In that year the great “Vakataka” patrons had to flee from Ajanta as a result of the Asmakas’ takeover of...
Brill, 2009. — xx, 356 p. — (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 2 South Asia 18/4; Ajanta: History and Development 18/4). Ajanta: Year by Year is planned as a biography of this remarkable site, starting with the earliest caves, dating from some two thousand years, to its startling renaissance in the brief period between approximately 462 and 480. Concentrating on the...
Brill, 2007. — x, 398 p. — (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 2 South Asia 18/5; Ajanta: History and Development 18/5). Volume Five comprises, along with introductory comments, two "cave by cave" guides. One which, very briefly, describes the character of each cave and its patronage, is intended to be useful for the general visitor to the site. The other, very detailed,...
Brill, 2014. — xviii, 464 p. — (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 2 South Asia 18/6; Ajanta: History and Development 18/6). Volume 6, in Walter Spink's detailed analysis of the creation and development of the Ajanta caves, during the reign of the emperor Harisena (c.460-c.477) has had a profound and often upsetting impact on the understanding of Indian history in the...
Brill, 2016. — xxi, 432 p. — (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 2 South Asia 18/7; Ajanta: History and Development 18/7). Walter Spink’s intense concern with the development of the Ajanta caves and their architectural, sculptural and painted features finds its most insistent reflection in his present richly illustrated study. In part 1, Spink explains the many connections...
Archaeopress, 2025. — 194 p. Proceedings of the Workshop Held in Oxford, 21-22 March 2023 Throughout the centuries of classical, Graeco-Roman history, India had strong connections with the world of the Mediterranean and Western Asia, sometimes by land or as a result of direct conquest, at other times through the maritime links of the Indian Ocean. In the Hellenistic and Roman...
Harry N. Abrams, 2002. — 192 p. A unique blend of Indian, Persian, and Islamic styles, Mughal painting reached its golden age during the reigns of the emperors Akbar, Jahangir, and Shah Jahan in the 16th and 17th centuries. This gloriously illustrated book is the first to examine the Victoria and Albert Museum's remarkable collection of Mughal paintings, one of the finest in...
V&A Publishing, 2024. — 301 р. Stunning treasures from the dynasty that created the Taj Mahal are showcased in this lavish book. 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. 1605–27) and Shah Jahan (r. 1628–58). Providing a compelling new...
Brill, 2008. — lxxii, 814 p. — (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 2 South Asia, Volume: 21). — ISBN 978-90-04-16819-0. The art history of South Asia covers a time span of roughly four and a half thousand years. During this period, a vast number of animal stone sculptures has been produced, ranging from the pre-historic period till today and covering a great variety of...
Harry N. Abrams, 1963. — 190 p. This book offering a significant, scholarly contribution to the study of Mughal art. Includes paintings, weapons, jewels, costumes, and implements. The Mughal Dynasty in India began and ended with poets; and the intervening emperors were, with few exceptions, among the world's most aesthetically minded rules. Within the span of a few decades they...
Metropolitan Museum of Art — 1987 — 320 pp. — ISBN10: 0300086016 / ISBN13: 978-0300086010 The Emperors' Album: Images of Mughal India publishes the fifty leaves that form the Kevorkian Album, one of the world's great assemblages of Mughal art and calligraphy, for the first time. Thirty-nine leaves date from the 17th century; the other eleven leaves were created in the early...
George Braziller, 1978. — 124 p. Mughal patrons and artists doted on the world and its inhabitants. No pains were spared to record them realistically in life-oriented pictures mostly of people and animals. The people are exceptional—some of mankind's quirkiest worldlings and wisest saints, shown in depth, to be scrutinized inside and out, if necessary with a magnifying glass....
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1985. — 480 p. — ISBN: 0-87099-383-6 This book is a tribute to the rich and varied culture of India as represented in the later art of the subcontinent, dating from the fourteenth through the nineteenth century. Comprehensive in its conceptual framework, this presentation of three hundred thirty-three works brings together masterpieces of...
Princeton University Press, 1982. — 394 p. A central problem for any work that deals with Gupta sculpture and architecture is the very meaning of that label, Gupta. For a reader new to India and its art, the question may seem to be one of labels in general. Categorization, in particular periodization, inevitably violates the integrity of the individual artist and work of art....
New Delhi: Roli Books, 1983. — 296 p. The author of this book, Mark Zebrowski, an expert on Indian art, felt that very little research had been done on Deccani art of the 16th and 17th centuries, even though according to him, Bijapur, Golconda and Ahmednagar, patronised outstanding paintings. Since the 1930s several scholars had published individual Deccani paintings but this...
Pantheon Books, 1955. — 543 p. — (Bollingen Series 39). The Present work is intended not as a handbook bus as an introduction to its subject, to be read from beginning to end. Each section is preparation for the next. Chapter I, presenting as it does a brief historical outline of the transformation of Indian art as well as a key to the symbology of the forms, can be used as a...
Pantheon Books, 1955. — 610 p. — (Bollingen Series 39). The Present work is intended not as a handbook bus as an introduction to its subject, to be read from beginning to end. Each section is preparation for the next. Chapter I, presenting as it does a brief historical outline of the transformation of Indian art as well as a key to the symbology of the forms, can be used as a...
М.: Наука – Восточная литература, 2014. — 224 с .: ил. Работа представляет исследование и первый перевод на русский язык с санскрита самого раннего из дошедших до нас индийских трактатов (нач. – сер. I тыс.) по теории и технологии живописи. Трактат содержит как технические рецепты приготовления грунтов, красок и пр., так и первые в данной области теоретические построения по...
М.: Академии художеств СССР, 1963. — 71 с.
Многие области современной индийской культуры и искусства новаторски развивают великое наследие прошлого, и понять Индию наших дней, ее духовные ценности невозможно, не изучив ее историю, ее памятники. Памятникам архитектуры и искусства древней и средневековой Индии и посвящена эта книга.
М.: Академии художеств СССР, 1963. — 71 с.
Многие области современной индийской культуры и искусства новаторски развивают великое наследие прошлого, и понять Индию наших дней, ее духовные ценности невозможно, не изучив ее историю, ее памятники. Памятникам архитектуры и искусства древней и средневековой Индии и посвящена эта книга.
М.: ГРВЛ «Наука», 1982. — 239 с.
В книге дается исторический обзор развития индийского художественного ремесла, рассказывается об основных типах традиционной одежды и тканях, из которых она делается. Характеризуются наиболее значительные виды художественных ремесел: обработка металла, ювелирное дело, керамическое производство, резьба по дереву и кости, плетение и др.
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М.: Наука, Главная редакция восточной литературы, 1971. — 100 с. В альбоме воспроизводятся миниатюры индийских художников могольской и деканской школ. Почти все миниатюры публикуются впервые. Предназначен для востоковедов, искусствоведов, художников и более широкого круга читателей. Предисловие Список иллюстраций
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М.: Наука, 1992. — 259 с. Цели и задачи работы предопределили логику и структуру исследования: оно идет от общих вопросов теории взаимодействия и синтеза искусств, сложившейся еще в древней Индии, к рассмотрению жизни синтетической традиции в условиях современности. Динамика эволюционного процесса интеграции видов искусств вскрывается по мере возможности на конкретных живых...
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М.: Искусство, 1988. — 342 с., ил.
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