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Portraiture in Early India : Between Transience and Eternity.
In the study of Indian art prior to the Mughal period, portraiture has so far been much neglected, when its existence has not simply been denied. This book is an attempt to reassess this issue, by showing that portraits have existed in great number in early India, since probably the first artistic a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden :
BRILL,
2011.
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| Colección: | Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 2 South Asia, 25.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword; Acknowledgements; List of Figures; Abbreviations; Introduction Portraiture, a Problematic Issue; Chapter One Identifying Portraits; Chapter Two Viddha / Aviddha. Different Kinds of Portraits for Different Kinds of Purpose; Chapter Three Portraits, Worship and Divine Images; Chapter Four The Origin of Portraiture and the Representation of Heroes; Chapter Five The Royal Portrait, Portrait Par Excellence?; Appendix Vaikun?th?aperumal?Temple, Kanchipuram: Iconography of the Surrounding Galleries; Concluding Remarks; Bibliography; Index.