The Emperors' Album: Images of Mughal India

by Stuart Cary Welch, Wheeler M. Thackston, Annemarie Schimmel

Here the fifty leaves that form the Kevorkian Album, one of the world's great assemblages of Mughal art and calligraphy, are presented together for the first time. Thirty-nine leaves date from the seventeenth century, the other eleven leaves were created in the early nineteenth century...

Genres: Art

256 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1987

Reviews

[Bryn Hammond]

Digital version made accessible by The Metropolitan Museum of Art:

http://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/...

It seems to have most of these astonishing paintings by Abu al-Hasan, as seen in Wiki Commons: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cat...

[reveurdart · Rating 4 out of 5]

Continuing my calligraphy theme of this month and my Mughal theme of this year. I chose to dip in and out of this one, but that doesn't mean it wasn't great. MET tend to do books like this well and that's the case here, too. Each image gets a page, so you can really see the details, and a description on another page, as is usual with MET publications. Highly recommended.

"Few dynasties in history equal the Mughals in their enlightened, discerning patronage of the arts."