Chapter 51, Early Modern Art of South and Southeast Asia

51.2 Ceremonial banner, c. 1340

• woodblock printing: a relief printing process where wood block is carved

• resist-dying: when dying textiles, the various methods used to create patterns by preventing the dye reaching cloth in certain areas.

• Gujarat, India. these textiles are world renowned and at the time were traded and sold.

• cotton cloths are stamped and dyed to create very intricate and colorful textiles.

51.3 Folio from the Devasano Pada Kalpasutra

• patterning is influenced by the Gujarat textiles

51.5 Buland Darwaza

• new capital built for Emperor Akbar

• islam was becoming very intrenched and a mosque is included.

• Pishtaq: in islamic architecture it is a gateway with a rectangular frame and arched top.

• architectural polychromy: using different colored materials to create decorative patterns in architecture.

• Chhatri: means “canopy”, a dome shaped pavilion, usually elevated and used for decorations.

51.7 Diwan I Kas

• the emperors audience space and a very weird space that was designed.

• the stepped pillar was one of the innovations of this Mughal empire

51.8 “Krishna Holds up Mount Govardhan to shelter the villagers of Braj,” folio from a Harvamsa manuscript

• emperor commissioned these books to learn about Hindu religion and culture.

• very detailed

51.9 Bichitr, Jahangir Preferring a Sifi Shaykh to Kings

• artist paints himself in the bottom left corner holding a little painting. '

• shows the emperor bowing and receiving knowledge, depicts him as humble.

• king James is included in a pink coat. they had his portrait and copied it. influenced by European art.

51.13 Pleasures of the Hunt

• ink, watercolor, and gold and silver on paper. these mediums used together is popular and traditional.

• has erotic scenes

51.10 Taj Mahal

• means: the Crown of Mahal

• Mahal was the wife of a Mughal emperor who died in childbirth

• Mausoleum: a building or freestanding monument that houses a burial chamber

• Charbagh: a person term referring to a garden divided into four equal parts.

• draws on gardens with water in four parts that has been a tradition since the palace of lions.

• Pishtaq is the entry way

• Pietra dura- an inlay technique in which small pieces of carefully cut and fitted colored stone creates patterns or images.

51.1 Ceramics from the Hot An hoard

• Hoi An hoard was a ship exporting ceramics that sunk.

• Ming Gap: 500 year period where they banned export of Chinese porcelain. other countries has to step in and export porcelain to fill this gap.

51.17 Cabinet

• Kranok pattern: frame imagery in Thai art, associated with spiritual energy, purification and transformation.

• possibly shows Hindu dieties and an Mughal emperor and European king.

• the vast trade allowed knowledge and combination of many cultures