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Monuments of India has not any of its parameters or its own angles, or even its own diction to define or delineate a monument. It endeavours to read a monument's own diction, see from its own angle and assess its magnitudious- ness by its own parameters. Its vision of Taj is shere poetry, as Taj is a poem, a song, an elegy composed in marble, its interpretation of Khajuraho sculptures and building structures of Fatehpur Sikri is thought provoking as they were ...
India’s great spiritual and aesthetic past, outside influences, and a six hundred years ever changing political, social and religious scenario greatly diversified both, the theme and the style of Indian miniatures. In its few inches length and width the canvas of an Indian miniature is seen translating into its lines and colours the legends of ages, faith of generations, eternal yearnings of those who were in love, glow of youthful faces, serenity of soul, ...
This volume brings to light, besides an elaborate textual part viewing the entire material from a fresh angle, some rare unpublished masterpieces of Mugal and Deccani art-schools, such as the Hamzanama folio and the portrait of Abdulla Qutb Shah, which the National Museum, New Delhi, has in its collection. The publication, though basically a catalogue, is different in it's approach to the most of books available on the subject. Besides evaluating each painting ...
From the preface: "The National Museum, New Delhi had bought in 1989 a set of 53 precious painting serialising the tale of Shakuntala's legendary romance. Considering their great artistic merit an expert-member of National Museum's purchase committee the renowned art historian Karl Khandalavala who was also the chief editor of the Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, sought to initiate their publication, as a result of which in 1991 Lalit Kala brought out under ...