Minissale, Dr. Gregory
Gregory Minissale completed his PhD in art history at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Co-editor of Drain, a journal of contemporary art, he taught at graduate and undergraduate levels in the US for several years before returning to the UK to lecture at the University of Reading and London Metropolitan University. He is now an independent scholar.
Articles by this Author
The Synthesis of European and Mughal Art in the Emperor Akbar’s Khamsa of Nizami
- By Minissale, Dr. Gregory
- Published 29 February 2008
- Paintings, Drawings and Prints , Oriental and Asian Art
- Unrated
13 October 2000, Asianart.com
The European engravings brought to India in the sixteenth century by the Jesuits to help communicate Christian doctrines to the Mughals are well documented. Prints of non-religious subjects and topographical materials, which need not have necessarily found their way into Mughal possession by way of the Jesuit missionaries is a subject that has been dealt with to a far lesser extent. Individual travelers and merchants took engravings of classical nudes and mythical subjects to the East; this would explain the presence in Mughal albums of prints of nude, mythological and classical subjects, and motifs from maps in background landscapes.
The European engravings brought to India in the sixteenth century by the Jesuits to help communicate Christian doctrines to the Mughals are well documented. Prints of non-religious subjects and topographical materials, which need not have necessarily found their way into Mughal possession by way of the Jesuit missionaries is a subject that has been dealt with to a far lesser extent. Individual travelers and merchants took engravings of classical nudes and mythical subjects to the East; this would explain the presence in Mughal albums of prints of nude, mythological and classical subjects, and motifs from maps in background landscapes.
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