Talk:The House of Bijapur
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The House of Bijapur
- ... that The House of Bijapur (pictured) has been called a "painted curtain call" since the dynasty it depicts was overthrown only a few years later?
- Source: Hutton, Deborah (2016). "Memory and Monarchy: A Seventeenth-Century Painting from Bijapur and its Afterlives". South Asian Studies. 32 (1): 22–41. ISSN 0266-6030.
Thus, within a few years of the paintings completion, the sultanate it celebrated was gone. Stuart Cary Welch, in characteristically evocative prose, called the work ' a painted curtain call ': the main characters appearing together for one last ovation before the play ended and the stage went dark.
- ALT1: ... that The House of Bijapur (pictured) depicts eight members of the Adil Shahi dynasty? Source: Hutton, Deborah (2016). "Memory and Monarchy: A Seventeenth-Century Painting from Bijapur and its Afterlives". South Asian Studies. 32 (1): 22–41. ISSN 0266-6030.
it is larger than most manuscript paintings), its arresting lavender and saffron landscape, and its subject matter: it depicts eight rulers of the ʿAdil Shahi dynasty seated together on a carpet. Technically, it is not all of the ʿAdil Shahi rulers, as the artists left out the unfortunate Mallū ʿĀdil Khān(r. 1534–35), who ruled for a mere seven months before he was deposed.
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AmateurHi$torian (talk) 15:47, 8 December 2024 (UTC).