Memory and Monarchy: A Seventeenth-Century Painting from Bijapur and its Afterlives
| Autor: | Deborah Hutton |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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| Zdroj: | South Asian Studies. 32:22-41 |
| ISSN: | 2153-2699 0266-6030 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/02666030.2016.1179433 |
| Popis: | The well-known Deccan painting, The House of Bijapur, completed c. 1680 by the artists Kamāl Muḥammad and Chand Muḥammad, depicts eight of the ʿAdil Shahi rulers of Bijapur seated together in an imaginary dynastic meeting. This article closely analyses the painting, as well as later iterations of its imagery, to examine how historical memory of Bijapur and its Muslim rulers developed. The first half of the article focuses on the House of Bijapur itself, looking at the artists’ use of composition, visual motifs, styles, and modes of dress in order to explore how court artists working in the late seventeenth century visually defined the sultanate’s identity and that of each of its rulers, moving backwards in time almost two hundred years. The second half of the paper traces the imagery’s later iterations: within a few years of the painting’s creation, its distinctive imagery was being copied, collected, and circulated in environments quite different from that of its origin. These later versions and the ways... |
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