BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Royal Asiatic Society - ECPv6.17.4//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-WR-CALNAME:Royal Asiatic Society
X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org
X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Royal Asiatic Society
REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H
X-Robots-Tag:noindex
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:Europe/London
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:+0000
TZOFFSETTO:+0100
TZNAME:BST
DTSTART:20170326T010000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:+0100
TZOFFSETTO:+0000
TZNAME:GMT
DTSTART:20171029T010000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:+0000
TZOFFSETTO:+0100
TZNAME:BST
DTSTART:20180325T010000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:+0100
TZOFFSETTO:+0000
TZNAME:GMT
DTSTART:20181028T010000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:+0000
TZOFFSETTO:+0100
TZNAME:BST
DTSTART:20190331T010000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:+0100
TZOFFSETTO:+0000
TZNAME:GMT
DTSTART:20191027T010000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20181011T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20181011T203000
DTSTAMP:20180917T100822Z
CREATED:20180917T100822Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180917T100822Z
UID:6043-1539282600-1539289800@royalasiaticsociety.org
SUMMARY:Dr. Mehreen Chida-Razvi (SOAS) - The Mughal Madonna: Representations of the Virgin in Jahangiri-era Architecture
DESCRIPTION:The Mughal Madonna: Representations of the Virgin in Jahangiri-era Architecture \nDr Mehreen Chida-Razvi (Research Associate\, Department of History of Art & Archaeology\, SOAS) \n \nFrom the arrival of Jesuit missionaries to the court of the Mughal emperor\, Akbar (r.1556-1605)\, Christian imagery was depicted by Mughal artists in works on paper. Both Akbar and his son\, Prince Salim\, the future emperor Jahangir (r.1605-27)\, were fascinated by such depictions and scenes from the life of Christ\, portraits of Christ and the Virgin Mary\, and other scenes based on imagery from religious texts were frequently created by their artists. \nPeculiar to Jahangir’s reign\, however\, are representations of Christian figures as architectural decoration in the form of wall paintings. One of the most frequently depicted of these figures appears to have been the Virgin Mary; she appears as decoration within Jahangir’s royal audience halls\, in a pavilion at the Lahore Shahi Qila\, was depicted within the gateway to the tomb complex of I‘timad-ud-Daula\, Jahangir’s father-in-law\, and is supposed to have been represented within the burial chamber of Akbar’s tomb in Sikandra. \nIn addition to the surviving evidence of such imagery within architecture\, textual descriptions and paintings confirm the appearance of the Virgin Mary within Mughal architectural spaces.  Her placement is continuously within palatial or funerary architecture during the period under examination; she does not appear in other structural spaces. \nThis paper will query the reasons for these depictions of the Virgin\, examining the cultural context of Jahangir’s court that led to such religious representations as architectural decoration occurring only during his reign. The political implications of such imagery will also be discussed\, tying their creation to not only Jahangir’s patronage but to that of his powerful queen\, Nur Jahan. Furthermore\, the idea of the Mughal’s symbolically claiming the Virgin via such architectural decoration will be put forth.
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/lectures-event/dr-mehreen-chida-razvi-soas-the-mughal-madonna-representations-of-the-virgin-in-jahangiri-era-architecture/
LOCATION:Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre\, 14 Stephenson Way\, London\, NW1 2HD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Lecture Series 2018-2019
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR