'The Great Mughals: Art, Architecture and Opulence' at the Victoria and Albert Museum

In the next Indian Art Circle lecture, Sue Stronge (Senior Curator, Asian Department, Victoria and Albert Museum) will discuss her exhibition 'The Great Mughals: Art, Architecture and Opulence' and the book with contributions by leading specialists that accompanies it.

The exhibition presents the internationalist culture of Mughal Hindustan under the emperors Akbar (r. 1556–1605), Jahangir (r. 1605–1627) and Shah Jahan (r. 1628–1658). The talk examines the key considerations in selecting and displaying objects to describe the origins of Mughal art. Artists and craftsmen from Iran and across the provinces of the empire worked together in the imperial workshops to create a new, hybrid style that was further modified by interactions with European paintings, prints and objects brought by Jesuit missionaries and Western traders.

The 3rd Annual Robert Skelton Memorial Lecture.

The event will be in person in the Alumni Lecture Theatre, Paul Webley Wing, Senate House at SOAS and via Zoom: for zoom link contact Dr Mehreen Chida-Razvi at indianartcircle.london@gmail.com.

Image: © V&A Museum.