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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"manuscript painting"”.
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A Solemn Assembly.
<p>A group of oil paintings completed in partial requirement of my MFA degree is discussed. The paintings are on wood panels and are the result of a combination of old master techniques of under-painting and glazing and more contemporary approaches to the painting process. Each painting represents …
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Variations on a Persian Theme: Adaptation and Innovation in Early Manuscripts from Golconda
Scholarship on the earliest known illustrated manuscripts produced in the sultanate of Golconda has tended to describe these objects as the products of the extension of a powerful influence from Iran over this small kingdom in the Deccan. While this assessment rightly acknowledges the importance of …
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Art in between Empires: Visual Culture and Artistic Knowledge in Late Mughal Delhi, 1748-1857
… to light and studies the transformations within painting culture in the multicultural Anglo-Mughal society of Delhi. Rather than being fixated on the continuum of Mughal painting over centuries, this dissertation suggests that the art of the late Mughal period should be studied on its own terms …
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From Fear of Hell to Love of Christ: The Monastic Devotional Use of MS K.21 in the Library of St. John's College, Cambridge
The St. John’s College, Cambridge manuscript K.21 contains a monastic calendar, twenty-four canticles, and 115 hymns rubricated for use in the Divine Office. Interrupting this Latin material is a lengthy illustrated narrative presenting the Passion of Christ and the final years of the Virgin Mary …