The Construction of Female Identity in Mughal Painting: Portraits of Women from the Shah Jahan Period (ca. 1628-1658)
Paintings of women as individual subjects were a popular theme in the Mughal court during the mid-seventeenth century, or the Shah Jahan period (ca. 1628-1658). These portraits depict idealized archetypes with subtle differences in facial and bodily features. The same portrait conventions were used...
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VCU Scholars Compass
2014
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| Online Access: | http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/607 http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1606&context=etd |