CONTEXT, HISTORY, THEORY

On illuminated Jain manuscripts, from the V&A museum: http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/j/jainism_illuminated_manuscripts-and-jain-paintings/

I am trying to locate the source of an image that appears on the back dust cover of my copy of The Spirit of Indian Painting (Goswamy): I couldn't find a credit for this image in the Goswamy text. It is very tiny on the back cover. On a Google reverse image search, only a few rug advertisement

Or tradition and history, whichever you prefer! Both are important - without history we won't know what actually happened, ie. whether that painting was painted for a certain shah/emperor/sultan, whether it was taken in battle/cut out of a book, biographies of artists etc... - without tradition we

I have a question about the margins in Persian and Indian miniature manuscript painting - it's for my PhD - is there any literature or are there any sources on this? It seems to have not been written about much. I would like to know: why did paintings often contain elements that escaped the frame?

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The perspective of objects receding into the distance.. The perspective of a miniature painting as seen from the top of a minaret. The perspective of Chinese painting, implying almost endless verticality or horizontality. Linear perspective. Depth perspective. 3D perspective. Vertical perspective. I

As promised yesterday here is the image of the series of Matisse photographs documenting the progress of the painting The Pink Nude, 1935 https://www.wikiart.org/en/henri-matisse/pink-nude-1935 I took it as a screen shot form one of my lectures and so quality not perfect but you can read at the b

In Chinese painting the brush is 'charged' with the energy of, from, by that particular artist. A kind of emanation perhaps. Also, the artist is in total harmony with - and in total control of - their brush; their hand is completely 'at one' with the brush. When you have to connect your mind with yo