#mughal
“Princess and Attendants on Balcony”,
Folio from the Davis Album
Object Name: Illustrated album leaf
Date: 17th century
Geography: India
Culture: Islamic
Medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
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A Music Party
Abanindranath Tagore
Bengal, India, 1905
Watercolors on paper
A group of people sit and listen to a lady playing a sitar. The setting is that of a Mughal court, with Mughal style architecture in the background and the setting sun visible through the arches.
The artist, Abanindranath Tagore (1871 - 1951) was the pioneer and leading exponent of the Bengal School of Art, which flourished between 1905 and 1920. In his paintings, he sought to counter the influence of Western art as taught in art schools under the British Raj, by modernizing indigenous Moghul and Rajput traditions. His work became so influential that it was eventually accepted and regarded as a national Indian style.
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Nur Jahan
India, Mughal, c. 18th century
Opaque watercolors & gold on paper
© Victoria & Albert Museum
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Lady Ra’aba of Basra
India, Mughal, c. 17th century
Ink, watercolors, & gold on paper
© Victoria & Albert Museum
Likely based on a Domenico Tintoretto engraving of Mary of Magdalene.
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The Virgin Mary
India, Mughal, c. 1760 - 1765
Gouache and gold on paper
© The Victoria & Albert Museum, London
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A Camel and it’s Rider Playing Kettledrums
Mazar Ali Khan
Delhi, India, Mughal, c. 1840
Gouache
© Victoria & Albert Museum, London
One of six figures, this painting likely depicts the Mughal Emperor’s ceremonial procession on the occasion of Eid.
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Khusrau spies Shirin bathing
From a Khamesh of Nizami
India, Mughal dynasty,
Early 18th centuryThe British Museum
A girl was swimming in the river. Her marble-carved body moved swiftly like a fish in the water, and her tousled hair clung wildly to her face and shoulders, giving her an unsophisticated kind of beauty. He caught his breath at the sight of this overwhelming creature.
– Tales from the Land of the Sufis by Mojdeh Bayat Mohammad Ali Jamnia
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variationsforthehealingofmishka:
intoxicated lady at a window
late 18th century
opaque watercolor and gold on paper
brooklyn museum
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thepostmodernpottercompendium:
Hi guys.
I’m so glad so many of you are reading this project, because its something very dear to me and the fact that there are people reading this motivates me to go deeper into this and not shove this project to the side.
Bless you all.
BUT
I’m applying to universities for my MA and that takes time. Unfortunately, I foolishly let real life take a backseat to this blog and now one of the courses I really wanted is Limited Availability now.
In short.
I would really, REALLY appreciate it if you guys could pitch in and submit any pictures you might find which you think could work on this blog. I end up spending about four or five hours at a go finding blog entry appropriate pics and then another hour or so editing them so they look good. In proportion, it usually takes me about an hour to write and edit a post so that its ready to go. The more pics I get, the quicker I can upload, the more you guys get to read. So…
Themes that will be turning up sooner or later:
- Slaves: ok this is URGENT. I need pics of slaves in slave ships - they could be paintings or screencaps, but high quality, high resolution stuff.
- Mughal art & colonial Bengal era photos/pics etc.
- ooo photos from post-war britain, preferably of immigrants from South Asia and the Carribean.
- Celts: red haired ones preferably. + points if they’re painted in blue.
- Scottish clansmen: erm. yeah. Battle scenes esp?
- Saxons: farmers, battles, bonus points if you can find something to do with the Night of the Long Knives. Or like people being butchered at a dinner table. (No, the Red Wedding is too obvious a reference sorry.)
- Hogwarts House motifs: um. Minimalist, preferably. Also if you can get actual pics of animals/people which look nice/fit the pic quality or themes used so far = great.
- 1920s era dudes in a dudeclub. A bit like the Drones club from P G Wodehouse. I have some art for this already, but I like to have a stock to choose from. Tweed+suckerseer suits also work.
- things which could pass for Azkaban. Gloomy stuff.
All submissions should have a source link and I will credit your sumissions at the end of each post. <3
I will be posting, don’t fear, but I would dearly appreciate the help since I’m a bit swamped at the moment.
<3
[[The loveliness behind Postmodern Potterverse has been a huge supporter of this project. I can totally relate to their struggle - I too prefer writing to picture-hunting and I don’t even have workable image editing software so trying to make things look good take up a LOT of time. If you have resources do share!]]
A while ago, some friends and I were talking about Tolkien and I thought it’d be fun to redesign Middle Earth- inspired by Asian designs! So here’s Galadriel, inspired by Mughal and Qing fashion.
I kept her Noldorin descent in mind, the crafting and the power, and also the colour of her hair since that’s such a plot point. Also pretty much the reason behind her Sindarin name hur.
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2019.04.29 Nayabad #Mosque - a wonderful sample of great #Mughal #architecture in #Bangladesh.
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Built in 1793 it was created by the Muslim architects who came from the West (Persia is the assumption). These workers who built the famous Hindu temple Kantojir Mondir (aka Kantajew Temple) settled in a near by village and built this beautiful mosques for their daily prayers.
In addition to three domes with octagonal towers at the four corners and the three arched doors that welcome visitors inside the mosque, there are two arched windows on each of the north and south sides of the mosque. These windows being in cool summer breeze and natural light into the room.
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#history #travel #architecturephotography #architecturelovers #architecture_hunter #mosque #travelblogger #travelphotography #islamicarchitecture #travelphotography #travelphoto #landmark #historical #dinajpur #photographersofbangladesh #beautifulbangladesh #bangladeshinpositivelight #islam #design #persian #wanderlust #empire #mughalarchitecture #bnw #bnwphotography #bnw_society #bnw_shotz (at Dinajpur, Rājshāhi, Bangladesh)
https://www.instagram.com/p/BxfTxG2nV10/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=146bh5bf2lyl5
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2019.04.29 Nayabad #Mosque - a wonderful sample of great #Mughal #architecture in #Bangladesh.
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(Built in 1793 it was created by the Muslim architects who came from the West (Persia is the assumption) to build the famous Hindu temple Kantojir Mondir (aka Kantajew Temple).
There are three domes with octagonal towers at the four corners. Three arched doors welcome visitors inside the mosque.) #
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#history #travel #architecturephotography #architecturelovers #architecture_hunter #mosque #travelblogger #travelphotography #islamicarchitecture #travelphotography #travelphoto #landmark #historical #dinajpur #photographersofbangladesh #beautifulbangladesh #bangladeshinpositivelight #islam #design #persian #wanderlust #empire #mughalarchitecture #bnw #bnwphotography #bnw_society #bnw_shotz (at Dinajpur, Rājshāhi, Bangladesh)
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bxem7mUHuzg/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=11tic09q9g62h
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2019.04.29 Nayabad #Mosque - a wonderful sample of great #Mughal #architecture in #Bangladesh.
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Created by the Muslim architects who came from the West (Persia is the assumption) to build the nearby famous Hindu temple Kantojir Mondir (aka Kantajew Temple) this mosque was completed in 1793 by those workers.
There are three arched doors (the middle one seen here) which welcome the visitors inside the mosque. Rectangular #terracotta plaques beautifully decorate the outside mosque walls.
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#history #travel #architecturephotography #architecturelovers #architecture_hunter #mosque #travelblogger #travelphotography #islamicarchitecture #travelphotography #travelphoto #landmark #historical #dinajpur #photographersofbangladesh #beautifulbangladesh #bangladeshinpositivelight #islam #design #persian #wanderlust #empire #mughalarchitecture #shotoniphone #bnw #bnwphotography #bnw_society #bnw_shotz (at Dinajpur, Rājshāhi, Bangladesh)
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bxdz6pNHMQP/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=te4slt3htyro
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