Click to play videoNew Delhi: Marg publications is out with yet another detailed study on a certain genre of art, this time, it's the Portraits In Princely India from 1700 to 1947.
This book is a detailed study on portraiture art up to independent India and throws light on what the royals are trying to say through the portraits.
Edited by well known scholar and historian Rose Lewellyn Jones, the book takes you through how the royals made statements of power and luxury through their portraits, how they led processions and their popularity with their people.
Portraits were used as an image building exercise. Many European artists changed the trend of having backgorund settings of garden and women.
It was changed to drapes and marble columns.
Soon dressing up as the British became a sign of power and the advent of photography takes us through some warm moments of the royals with family.
Towards the late 19th century, the princes were shown as celebrities like in modern day cigarettes ads.
For a book that covers 247 years of this art, pick it only if you;re really interested in a very thorough study.
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