MiataDrivers - Muraqqa': Imperial Mughal Albums from the Chester Beatty Library
Elaine Wright
[PDF.jl83] MiataDrivers - Muraqqa': Imperial Mughal Albums from the Chester Beatty Library Rating: 3.63 (610 Votes)
Muraqqa': Imperial Mughal Albums Elaine Wright epub Muraqqa': Imperial Mughal Albums Elaine Wright pdf download Muraqqa': Imperial Mughal Albums Elaine Wright pdf file Muraqqa': Imperial Mughal Albums Elaine Wright audiobook Muraqqa': Imperial Mughal Albums Elaine Wright book review Muraqqa': Imperial Mughal Albums Elaine Wright summary | #1609571 in Books | Art Services International | 2008-07-31 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 1.95 x9.29 x12.24l,7.00 | File type: PDF | 500 pages | ||11 of 11 people found the following review helpful.| The Past is a Foreign Country|By Marco Antonio Abarca|Sir Alfred Chester Beatty (1875-1968)was an Anglo-American mining magnate who collected Islamic books during the height of the Guilded Age. During a relatively short period of twenty years, he assembled one of the finest collections of Mughal miniature art. It was a collection that he added onto for the next thirty years|About the Author|This lavishly-illustrated, color catalogue contains essays by ELAINE WRIGHT, Curator of the Islamic Collections, Chester Beatty Library, WHEELER THACKSTON, Lecturer, Harvard University, SUSAN STRONGE, Curator, Asia Department, Victoria and Alber
Throughout history, people have assembled albums that record their lives and the world around them. Among the most remarkable of all albums ever created are those made in the years 1600-1657 for the emperors Jahangir and Shah Jahan. The Mughal dynasty ruled India for more than three centuries, but the period of greatest artistic production was that of these two great emperors, and the albums of paintings and calligraphy (called muraqqa' in Persian), that they assembled ...
You easily download any file type for your device.Muraqqa': Imperial Mughal Albums from the Chester Beatty Library | Elaine Wright. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
