TALK 'The Mughal ‘Museum’ By Prof. Ebba Koch at School of Arts and Aesthetics Auditorium (SAA), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Mehrauli Road > 5:30pm on 10th March 2017

Time : 5:30 pm (Tea will be served at 5:00 pm) Add to Calendar 10/03/2017 17:30 10/03/2017 19:00 Asia/Kolkata TALK 'The Mughal ‘Museum’ By Prof. Ebba Koch Event Page : http://www.delhievents.com/2017/03/talk-mughal-museum-by-prof-ebba-koch-at.html School of Arts and Aesthetics Auditorium (SAA), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Mehrauli Road, New Delhi - 110067 DD/MM/YYYY

Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served Basis)

Venue : School of Arts and Aesthetics Auditorium (SAA), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Mehrauli Road, New Delhi - 110067
Venue Info : www.jnu.ac.in | SAA Map
Nearest Metro Stations - 'Hauz Khas(Yellow Line)' &  'Delhi Aerocity(Orange Line)'

Event Description : The School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University invites you to a talk on 'The Mughal ‘Museum’ By Prof. Ebba Koch.

The lecture discusses how, at the turn of the seventeenth century, the Mughal emperors entered the ‘international’ collecting scène. The universal interests and strategies of  Jahangir (rul. 1605-1627)  were  refined by his son and successor Shah Jahan (rul. 1628-58) who incorporated Florentine pietra dura tablets into the throne arrangement of his palace in Delhi (1648) -  a highly visible and ideologically charged exhibition of European art at the Mughal court.

Prof. Ebba Koch is Professor at the Institute of Art History, Vienna University and is a leading authority on Mughal art and architecture.  Her publications include Mughal Architecture: An Outline if Its History and Development, (Oxford University Press, 2002); (with Milo C. Beach and Wheeler Thackston), King of the World: The Padshahnama, an Imperial Mughal Manuscript from the Royal Library, Windsor Castle, 
(Smithsonian Institution 1997), Mughal Art and Imperial Ideology (New Delhi: Oxford University Press 2001) and The Complete Taj Mahal and the Riverfront Gardens of Agra (London: Thames and Hudson, 2006). She was the global advisor to the Taj Mahal Conservation Collaboration, an international public-private partnership to preserve and restore the Taj Mahal and its environs.

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