Symposium - Drawing from Mughal India in the Age of Rembrandt (Getty Museum, 8 April 2018)

H-Islamart Symposium - Drawing from Mughal India in the Age of Rembrandt (Getty Museum, 8 April 2018)

Discussion published by Ellen Kenney on Saturday, March 10, 2018 From: Yael Rice Date: 8 March 2018

Drawing from Mughal India in the Age of Rembrandt The J. Paul Getty Museum April 8, 2018

To elucidate the importance of India for the Dutch artist Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (1606–1669) and other Europeans of his time, this symposium traces historical, political, economic, and artistic points of contact between Europe and the Mughal Indian Empire in the early modern period. Using the Getty’s exhibition Rembrandt and the Inspiration of India as their starting point, scholars will demonstrate how Mughal paintings and drawings were brought to Europe not as merely exotic curiosities, but also carried with them specific associations of political authority and exceptional artifice.

10:00–10:15 a.m. Welcome: Richard Rand, Associate Director for Collections, J. Paul Getty Museum

10:15–11:00 a.m. How Rembrandt Mediated Mughal Painting: Papering Over Global Art Benjamin Schmidt, Giovanni & Amne Costigan Endowed Professor, Department of History, University of Washington, Seattle

11:00–11:40 a.m. Rembrandt through Mughal Eyes Navina Haidar, Curator, Islamic Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Moderator: Catherine Glynn, Independent Scholar

11:40 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Discussion

12:30–1:30 p.m. Lunch (on your own)

1:30–2:15 p.m. Indo–Dutch Entanglements in the Age of Rembrandt Jos Gommans, Professor of Colonial and Global History, Institute for History, Leiden University

2:15–3:00 p.m. Philip Angel’s Indian Travels and their Literary and Artistic Echoes, 1650s–1670s Carolien Stolte, Assistant Professor, Institute for History, Leiden University

Moderator: Stephanie Schrader, Curator of Drawings, J. Paul Getty Museum

3:00–3:30 p.m. Discussion

Citation: Ellen Kenney. Symposium - Drawing from Mughal India in the Age of Rembrandt (Getty Museum, 8 April 2018). H-Islamart. 03-10-2018. https://networks.h-net.org/node/7636/discussions/1511700/symposium-drawing-mughal-india-age-rembrandt-getty-museum-8-april Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. 1 H-Islamart

3:30–3:50 p.m. Break

3:50–4:35 p.m. Collecting Exotica, Picturing New Worlds Jessica Keating, Assistant Professor of Early Modern Art and Architecture, Carleton College

4:35–5:20 p.m. From Awadh to Avignon: Examining the French Reception of Mughal Art Chanchal Dadlani, Assistant Professor of Art History, Wake Forest University

Moderator: Yael Rice, Assistant Professor of Art & the History of Art and of Asian Languages and Civilizations, Amherst College

5:20–5:40 p.m. Discussion

Registration Advance registration is recommended. http://www.getty.edu/Visit museum/programs/lectures/rembrandt_symposium.html or call (310) 440–7300 to register. Registration does not include parking, which is $15 per car and can be paid using the self–service pay stations.

Related Program India and the World: A History in Nine Stories Lecture by Naman Ahuja, curator of Indian art at Jawaharlal Nehru University The Getty Center, Wednesday, May 23, 7:30 p.m.