Miniature Painting and Painters of Persia, India, and Turkey from the 8th to the 18th Century

The Mughal School of miniature painting reached an excellence which has seldom been surpassed. In spite of the handicaps of the conventions which admitted only profiles or three-quarter faces, and mostly stiff postures, the Mughal portrait painter was somehow able to depict the very soul of the subject. Mughal art was entirely secular, and concerned itself mainly with the court, though sometimes pictures relating to the life of the people were also painted.Martin's classic work on the subject remains a useful tool today. Part one is history, part two reproduces 271 illustrations of miniatures. The five color illustrations are reproduced in color for this edition.Quarto. Cloth. v. color. frontispiece illustration., 275 pl. (4 col.). London, B. Quaritch, 1912.Martin, F. R. is the author of 'Miniature Painting and Painters of Persia, India, and Turkey from the 8th to the 18th Century ', published 2006 under ISBN 9781578985487 and ISBN 157898548X.