Metamorphosis at the Mughal Court - arthistoricum.net

Titel: Metamorphosis at the Mughal Court
Urheber: Keating, Jessica [ Autor/In ]
Enthalten in: Art history; 38(2015), 4, Seite 732-747
Erschienen: 2015
ISSN: 0141-6790
Sprache: Englisch
Schlagwörter: Painting ; Metamorphism ; Metaphor ; Art history
Inhalt: This essay examines the appearance of a German automaton of the Roman Goddess Diana atop a stag in a seventeenth-century Mughal painting of the Emperor Jahangir (1569-1627) receiving the Safavid Shah 'Abbas I (1571-1629). It asks what relationship is constructed in the painting between this automaton and a figure who presents it. And what can this painting tell us about the function and value of the Diana Automaton beyond its point of origin in northern Europe? In addition to presenting instances of European automata that travelled to India in the early modern period, this essay also reconsiders the recommendation that we understand objects that crossed cultural borders as hybrid, and it shows that the inclusion of the Diana Automaton in the painting suggests a more robust metaphor for thinking about and describing transcultural objects
Medientyp: Artikel
Datenquelle: OLC Kunst und Kunstwissenschaft