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Danto, Arthur C. | February 2, 1998 issue

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The paintings of Mughal India, particularly under the patronage of its greatest ruler, Shah Jahan, were reportorial in ambition but ornamental in presentation. So in one direction they have an affinity with photographs, while in the other they have the intricacy of jewels. The Mughal emperors were connoisseurs of visual truth, and looked upon paintings as objective memories, which all could share, of great occasions. And that was one basis for Mughal connoisseurship, that one should be able to tell from a given painting what it was like to have been there. In terms of presentation, the Mughal artists were in debt to the visual strategies of Persian illuminations.

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PAINTING; EMPERORS; GRAPHIC arts; PICTURES; ARTISTS; INDIA
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