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* 18 Nov 2023
Renowned art historian, critic and a world authority on miniature paintings, DR.B.N. GOSWAMY
passed away on November 17, 2023 at Chandigarh. He was 90. He authored
more than 25 books on the subjects of Pahari paintings, miniature
paintings, court painters, and masters of Indian paintings among others.
He was best-known for his scholarship on the Pahari style of paintings
and Indian miniature style paintings. He was a Padma Shri (1998) and
Padma Bhushan (2008) awardee.
Source: narthaki.com
Son of a judge in Sargodha (Pakistan), B.N.Goswamy moved to
Amritsar after the Partition. The postgraduate from Panjab University
quit the Indian Administrative Services (IAS) to pursue a career in art
and art history, enrolling for a PhD at Panjab University to study the
social context from which the Kangra painting practice emerged.
Travelling across the Kangra hills to acquaint himself with the
folklore, he taught himself the Takri Pahari script and leafed through
the handwritten genealogical records maintained by the pandas and
priests of Kurukshetra, Haridwar and Varanasi, and land settlement
records compiled by the colonial state, to painstakingly reconstructed
the family lineages and styles of miniature artists. He also carefully
studied the difference between paintings produced in the family
workshops of the Rajput and Pahari courts and the Mughal ateliers.
Source: Considered last word in India’s miniature painting, art
historian B N Goswamy dies at 90 by Vandana Kalra, Nov 17, 2023,
indianexpress.com
Books by B.N. Goswamy
Essence of Indian Art
Domains of Wonder: Selected Masterworks of Indian Painting
Health Social Science: A Transdisciplinary and Complexity Perspective
Pahari Masters
In Adoration of Krishna: Pichhwais of Shrinathji
The Word Is Sacred/Sacred Is the Word
I See No Stranger: Sikh Early Art and Devotion
Masters Of Indian Painting, 1100-1900 (2 Volume Set)
Nainsukh of Guler: A Great Indian Painter from a Small Hill-State
Manaku of Guler: The Life and Work of Another Great Indian Painter from a Small Hill State
Anaya - Antos - Lecturas y comentarios - Equipo Tropos (Level 6)
Paintings by Nainsukh of Guler: Works from the Pahari Region of the 18th
Century in the Collection of the Museum Rietberg Zurich Ascribed to the
Master, His Workshop, and His Success (Rietberg Museum)
The Great Mysore Bhagavata: Complete Study of a Manuscript from the Binney Collection in the San Diego Museum of Art
Ranga Roopa
The Spirit of Indian Painting: Close Encounters with 101 Great Works
Indian Paintings in the Sarabhai Foundation
Source: thriftbooks.com
* Jul 2021
Mughal miniatures are much admired across the art and history world and
the artworks have captured the Mughal times and the opulence related
with the Emperors and their reign.The Mughals ruled in India 1526 - 1857
A.D. The Mughals were patrons of art and maintained ateliers of their
own. They had their own court artists. The Mughal atelier included
artists like Abu'l Hasan, Farrukh Beg,Manohar, Govardhan, Inayat,
Muhammad Nadir among others. Mansur was a 17th century painter under
Emperors Akbar and Jahangir. He excelled in painting flora and fauna.
Animal subjects were his passion and he earned the title of ustad or
master during Akbar's reign. He used to travel with the emperor
recording natural subjects. He earned the title Nădir-al-'Asr, someone
who is unparalelled in his time.
Source: Mughal miniatures, Soma Ghosh, deccanviews.wordpress.com
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