A Splendid Land: Paintings from Royal Udaipur

$60.00 at Cleveland Museum of Art.

Edited by Debra Diamond and Dipti Khera How and why did painters center sensory experience, enchanting emotions, and cultural landscapes in South Asia? A Splendid Land is the first book to address this question through dazzling paintings made over a period of two hundred years that extends from Mughal to colonial India. The works have never been published or exhibited in the United States.Around 1700, artists in Udaipur began creating large, immersive paintings to convey the mood (bhava) of the city’s…