Talk | The Lives of Mughal Painters

In this special talk, Dr. Yael Rice, Associate Professor of Art History and Asian Languages and Civilizations at Amherst College, Massachusetts, will address the roles that Mughal manuscript paintings, murals, and designs for translation into other media played in broadcasting the imperial court's and the employed artists' own aspirations.
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About the Speaker
Yael Rice, PhD, is Associate Professor of Art History and Asian Languages and Civilizations at Amherst College, Massachusetts. She specializes in the art and architecture of South Asia, Central Asia, and Iran, with a particular focus on manuscripts and other portable arts of the 15th through 18th centuries. She is author of the The Brush of Insight: Artists and Agency at the Mughal Court (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2023) and co-editor, with Dipti Khera, of Readings on Painting from 75 Years of Marg (Mumbai: Marg, 2023). Prior to arriving at Amherst College, she served as the Assistant Curator of India and Himalayan Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.