History Unit 7 Assignment: Timeline Activity
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SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST ASIA, 1200 TO 1980
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Learning Objectives
Describe the movement of Islam across the Indian subcontinent.
Discuss the impact of the Mughal Empire on the art of India.
Analyze how Mughal artists created miniature paintings for manuscripts.
List examples of the ways the art of the Rajput kingdom differed from that of the Mughal Empire.
Explain the circumstances surrounding the construction of the Taj Mahal.
Demonstrate the changing role that the British played in Indian artistic endeavors from colonization through Indian independence.
Describe the role of Indian nationalism in 19th- and 20th-century Indian art.
Explain how Indian artists of the last century incorporate earlier themes and styles into their work.
Discuss Buddhist beliefs in terms of that religion’s impact on art and architecture in Thailand and Myanmar (Burma).
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MAP 33.1
33.1 South and Southeast Asia, 1200 to 1980.
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Figure 33.1
33.1 Bichitr, Jahangir Preferring a Sufi Shaykh to Kings, ca. 1615–1618. Opaque watercolor on paper, 10" 7 1/8". Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
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Figure 33.2
33.2 Qutb Minar (left, looking northeast), begun early 13th century, and Alai Darvaza (right), 1311, Delhi, India.
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Figure 33.3
33.3 Lotus Mahal (looking southwest), Vijayanagara, India, 15th or early 16th century.
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Figure 33.4
33.4 Basawan and Chatar Muni, Akbar and the Elephant Hawai, folio 22 from the Akbarnama (History of Akbar) by Abul Fazl, ca. 1590. Opaque watercolor on paper, 1' 1 7/8" 8 3/4". Victoria & Albert Museum, London.
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Figure 33.5
33.5 Sahifa Banu, Shah Tahmasp, early 17th century. Opaque watercolor on paper, figure panel 6" 3 5/8". Victoria & Albert Museum, London.
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Figure 33.5A
33.5A Abul Hasan and Manohar, Darbar of Jahangir, from the Tuzuk-i Jahangiri (Memoirs of Jahangir), ca. 1620. Opaque watercolor and gold on paper, 1' 1 3/4" 7 7/8". Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Francis Bartlett Donation of 1912 and Picture Fund, 1914).
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Figure 33.6
33.6 Ustad Ahmad Lahori(?), Taj Mahal and gardens (looking north), Agra, India, 1632–1647.
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Figure 33.7
33.7 Detail of the pietra dura stonework of the area above the central iwan of the facade of the Taj Mahal (fig. 33.6), Agra, India, 1632–1647.
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Figure 33.8
33.8 Krishna and Radha in a Pavilion, ca. 1760. Opaque watercolor on paper, 11 1/8" 7 3/4". National Museum, New Delhi.
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Figure 33.8A
33.8A Krishna and the Gopis, from the Gita Govinda (Song of the Cowherd), ca. 1550. Opaque watercolor on paper, 4 7/8" 7 1/2". Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Museum, Mumbai.
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Figure 33.9
33.9 Outermost gopuras of the Great Temple (looking southeast), Madurai, India, completed 17th century.
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Figure 33.10
33.10 Frederick W. Stevens, Victoria Terminus (now Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus; looking northeast), Mumbai (Bombay), India, 1878–1887.
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Figure 33.11
33.11 Maharaja Jaswant Singh of Marwar, ca. 1880. Opaque watercolor on paper, 1' 3 1/2" 11 5/8". Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn (gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Poster).
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Figure 33.11A
33.11A Abanindranath Tagore, Bharat Mata (Mother India), 1905. Watercolor on paper, 10 1/2" 6". Rabindra Bharati Society, Kolkata.
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Figure 33.12
33.12 Meera Mukherjee, Ashoka at Kalinga, 1972. Bronze, 11' 6 3/4" high. Maurya Sheraton Hotel, New Delhi.
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Figure 33.13
33.13 Wat Chai Wattanaram (looking east), Ayutthaya, Thailand, 1630.
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Figure 33.14
33.14 Walking Buddha, from Sukhothai, Thailand, mid-15th century. Bronze, 7' 2 1/2" high. Wat Benchamabophit, Bangkok.
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Figure 33.15
33.15 Emerald Buddha, Emerald Temple, Bangkok, Thailand, 15th century. Jade or jasper, 2' 6" high.
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Figure 33.16
33.16 Schwedagon Pagoda (looking northeast), Rangoon (Yangon), Myanmar (Burma), 14th century or earlier (rebuilt several times)
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Figure 33.17
33.17 Pha That Luang (looking northwest), Vientiane, Laos, 1566, as rebuilt in 1931–1935.
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Figure 33.18
33.18 Dish with two mynah birds on flowering branch, from Vietnam, 16th century. Stoneware painted with underglaze-cobalt, 1' 2 1/2" in diameter. Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena.
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Discussion Questions
What do you consider the most important cultural and religious influences in the art of India?
Compare Mughal miniature paintings to other manuscripts you have studied.
How is our understanding of the Taj Mahal informed both by historical sources and by architectural precedents?
Why is the Sukhothai Walking Buddha unusual?
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