Mughal Occidentalism: Artistic Encounters between Europe and Asia at the Courts of India, 1580-1630

Mika Natif, assistant professor of art history, elucidates the meaningful and complex ways in which Mughal artists engaged with European art and techniques from the 1580s-1630s. Using visual and textual sources, her book argues that artists repurposed Christian and Renaissance visual idioms to embody themes from classical Persian literature and represent Mughal policy, ideology and dynastic history.