"Delhi in the 16th Century," by
Glenn
D. Lowry; pdf file available: [site]
or [on this site]
"The Art of
the Mughals
after 1600," an interpretive site at the Metropolitan Museum: [site]
MANY MUGHAL
SITES, with
discussion (the tomb of Itimad ud-Daulah, the Red Fort, the Taj Mahal,
Humayun's Tomb, Fatahpur Sikri, the Jama Masjid, Akbar's tomb); also
many
RAJPUT PALACES and other sites: art-and-archaeology [site].
Havell, E.
B., A Handbook
to Agra and the Taj, Sikandra, Fatehpur-Sikri, and the Neighbourhood
(1904): [on this site]
ANU
ARCHITECTURAL
IMAGES (HUGE!)
DELHI
=Humayun's Tomb complex: [site]
=Museums: [site]
=Purana Qila: [site]
=Qila-e Kuhna mosque: [site]
=Safdarjang's tomb: [site]
=Shahjahanabad: [site]
AGRA
=Agra Fort: [site]
=Fatahpur Sikri: [site]
=Itimad ud-Daulah's tomb: [site]
=Sikandra: [site]
=Taj Mahal: [site]
From
Jahangir's and Shah
Jahan's time, from the Berger Collection:
=Sikandra
(near
Agra): Akbar's tomb (1613), started by Akbar but then redesigned by
Jahangir:
[one
set]; also DSAL images, 1945: [site];
also ArchNet: [site]
=Agra: Itimad
ud-Daulah's
tomb (1628), built by Jahangir's wife Nur Jahan for her father; in two
sections: [two
sets]
=Agra: Taj
Mahal,
supreme Mughal monument; built by Shah Jahan for his wife Mumtaz Mahal
(d.1631), in three sections: [three
sets]
=Agra: Agra
Fort;
begun by Akbar in 1865, and including Shah Jahan's famous marble Moti
Masjid,
or "Pearl Mosque": in four sections: [four
sets]
=Delhi: "Fort
Rouge,"
in two sections: [two
sets]
From
Aurangzeb's time,
from the Berger collection:
=Aurangabad: Bibi ka Maqbara,
the
tomb built by Aurangzeb for his queen Dilras Bano Begam, who died in
childbirth
in 1657; many images in section 1 (page 2): [one
set]
More excellent Agra images
from "Phil
G.": [site]
From
Jahangir's and Shah
Jahan's time-- DSAL images:
=Agra: Itimad ud-Daulah's tomb: [site]
=Agra: Taj Mahal: [site]
=Lahore: many good
architectural images:
[site]
=Archnet
Digital Library
architectural images, 1600's-- many sets: [site]
Paintings
with ZOOM
capabilities (FAMSF):
=Bikaner Mughal
style,
c.1600-1620: *"Blue
Roller Bird"*
=Benares Mughal
style,
early 1600's: *"Rama
and Balarama with their Monkey and Bear Allies"*
=Mughal style,
early
1600's: *"Marine
Scene"*
=Jain style,
c.1625:
*"Marudevi
tells
her Fourteen Auspicious Dreams..."*
=Mughal style,
c.1625-1650:
*"Two
Royal
Antelopes"*
=Mughal style,
1600's:
*"Holy
Man
Holding a Vina"*
=Kashmir Mughal
style,
1600's: *"Celebration
of Holi"*
=Malwa style,
1634:
*"Maidservant
in
Conversation with her Mistress"*
=Mughal style,
c. late
1600's: *"Marine
Scene of Battle"*
=Mughal style,
c. 1600's:
*"Portrait
of
a Raja"*
=Mughal, c.1670: *"Nawab
General Firoz Khan of Golconda"*
=Bundi style, c.1685: *"Holy
Man in Meditation"*
=c.1690: *"Portrait
of Fakir Khan and his Sons"*
=Deccani, c.1700: *"Raja
Bikram and the Angel"*
=Malusa, c.1700: *"The
Adoration of Krishna"*
=Shah Jahan's
excellent
"Padshah Namah" album of paintings, Univ. of Penn.: [site]
=The Princeton Shahnamah
Project, wonderful
Persian manuscripts presented very elegantly and with much background
material:
[site]
Hand-knotted
rugs
=Mughal
carpets
at the Met-- a gorgeous presentation and study: [site]
="Symmetry
and
pattern: the art of Oriental Carpets": [site]
="Oriental
Rugs"
at islamicart.com: [site]
=Islamic art at the
Met-- highlights
of the collection, many Indo-Muslim, limited but helpful ZOOM
capabilities:
[site]
="The Black Peacock," a
website displaying
many medieval and other paintings, with critical commentary, in a
Gauriya
Vaishnava perspective: [site]
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