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Article: Mughal manuscripts.(Current and coming)
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- The Magazine Antiques
- Article date:
- May 1, 2008
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This spring and summer visitors to the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in Washington, D. C., will have the rare opportunity to view a selection of almost ninety Mughal imperial albums from the renowned collection of the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin. Called muraqqa' in Persian, these albums display remarkable paintings and calligraphy commissioned during the seventeenth century by the Emperors Jahangir and Shah Jahan, both important and active patrons of the arts in Mughal India. Jahangir was particularly interested in naturalistic paintings and drawings that drew on Persian, Indian, and European ideals; he claimed to be able to identify any painter's work just from looking ...
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