Gallery Talk: A Universal Vision—Creative Synthesis of European Prints and Indian Paintings at the Mughal Court
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Harvard Art Museums
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Discover how Mughal painters combined European models with Indian meanings to appeal to a culturally and religiously diverse audience.
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- Ages: Adults.
- Wheelchair accessible.
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Cost
This Evento is free!
Please check in with museum staff at the Visitor Services desk in the Calderwood Courtyard to request to join the gallery talk. Space is limited, and talks are available on a first-come, first-served basis; no registration is required.
Ubicación
- In-person only.
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy
Cambridge, MA 02138
Estados Unidos
Dates and Times
Viernes, Mayo 16 12:30PM – 1PM
Additional information
European prints became a key source of inspiration for artists at the courts of Akbar (r. 1556–1605) and Jahangir (r. 1605–27) in northern India. Mughal painters adopted this foreign vocabulary but made it their own by incorporating local style and techniques and by adding iconographic elements that would be meaningful to a pluralistic audience. The result of this innovative synthesis is not merely a Europeanized mode of painting but a vision linked to Akbar’s religious universalism and the global connections of the Mughal court.
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Last updated Mayo 13, 2025.
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