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This is study of stone sculptures of birds, beasts, mythical animals, human beings and deities in Mughal Architecture. This is the .first book on this new subject which, though these sculptures were all the time there, had been consistently overlooked owing primarily to the fact that a life-time's experience of this discipline was needed to take it up. Some masterpieces of Mughal sculpture were produced during the age from Babur to Jehangir (c. 1522 to 1627 A.D.). The letter's reign (1605-27) was certainly the golden era of Mughal Sculpture when emphasis was given on full, round, free-standing sculptures. His sculptors not only made life-size, but also true-to-life sculptures which were conceptually, as much as artistically, superior even to the earlier sculptures of the Hindu period. His sculptures are as realistic as are the subjects depicted in contemporary painting. They vibrate with life. Mughal Sculpture developed as a court-art. The Mughals secularised it and freed it from all restrictions, compulsions and affiliations. A novel development of Mughal Sculpture was that it no longer remained dependent and subservient to architecture, and it could stand independently, by virtue of its own force. It developed into a perfect discipline. The work has been adequately illustrated by line-sketches, black-and-white and colour plates.

Table of Contents:
Preface I. INTRODUCTION : ANIMATION IN MUSLIM ART (637-1436 A.D.) : 1. Religious Injunction Against Figurative Art 2. Animation in Muslim Art & Architecture II. BABUR AND THE ART OF SCULPTURE (1522-30 A.D.) : 1. Rock-Cut Tigers of Qandahar 2. Elephant of the Gwalior Fort III. DIN-PANAH SCULPTURES OF HUMAYUN (1533-34 A.D.) : 1. Sardulas on the Talaqi-Darwazah 2. Humayun-Darwazah Elephan IV. ELEPHANT-GATES (HATHI-POLS) OF AKBAR (1565-85 A.D.) : INCARNATION OF 'GAJA-LAKSMI' SYMBOLISM : 1. Hathi-Pol of Agra Fort (1565-69) 2. Hathi-Pol of Fatehpur Sikri (1572-85) 3. The Gaja-Laksmi Concept 4. Sculptures on the River-Gate, Agra Fort (1565-69) 5. Elephant-Sculptures of the Hathi-Pol, Red Fort Delhi (1639-48) 6. Destruction of these Sculptures (1668) & Recovery of their Fragments (1863) 7. Restoration of the Elephants (1903) V. AKBAR'S CLASSICAL SCULPTURES (1565-85 A.D.) : 1. Sculptures of Agra Fort (1565-69) 2. Sculptures of Fatehpur Sikri (1572-85) VI. JEHANGLR'S LOVE OF FULL ROUND SCULPTURES (1605-27 A.D.) : 1. Kafur's Stone Horse Sikandara Agra (1605-10) 2. Jehangir's Antelope Sculpture Sheikhupura Lahore (c. 1607) 3. Rock-Cut Elephant of Basawal (1607) 4. Hathibhata Ajmer (1613) 5. Elephant-Brackets of Lahore Fort (1612-20) 6. Marble Statues of the Rana of Mewar and His Son (1616) 7. Lion Sculpture of the Nahar-Jharokha Mandu (1617) 8. Elephants on the Gate of Jehangir's Palace Mandu (1617) 9. Swan (Hamsa) Brackets Bagh-i-Nur Afshan Agra (1615-19) 10. Sculptures of Sarai Nur-Mahal Phillaur (1618-20) 9 VII. CONCLUSION : 1. The Aftermath 2. Classification of Mughal Sculpture : i. Sculptures of Hindu Deities ii. Sculptures of Human Beings iii. Sculptures of Mythical and Composite Figures iv. Sculptures of Birds and Beasts : a. Rock-Cut, Free-Standing Sculptures b. Stone-Carved (Monolithic) Free-Standing Sculptures c. Stone Masonry Sculptures d. Full Bracket Forms e. Animal Headed Brackets f. Stone Reliefs : Birds Beasts


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  • ISBN-13: 9788170248705
  • ISBN-10: 8170248701


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