Publisher's Synopsis
This volume presents a survey of Indian painting from 1000 to 1700 A.D., based on the collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, one of the most comprehensive collections outside India. A concise introduction gives an overview of the Indian painting tradition - including prehistoric pottery and early cave murals - up through the early Mughal period.;The book is the first of two volumes offering an annotated catalogue of the superb paintings in the museum's collection. This volume is notable for its early Buddhist and Jain manuscript illuminations and for the large group of exquisite works made for the Mughal emperors Akbar Jahangir and Shah Jahan, among the greatest known connoisseurs and patrons of art. Also included is background information on Buddhist illuminated manuscripts, Jain manuscripts and paintings, Hindu paintings, Islamic, Mughal and Deccani paintings and calligraphy. These include religious paintings on cloth, portraits and genre pictures and historical mythological and rhetorical works.
