George Michell
George Michell is an independent scholar, trained as an architect and studied Indian art and archaeology at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London.
Michell, George
Michell, George
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Description: History of Design: Decorative Arts and Material Culture 1400–2000
~~India from 1600 to 1750 was marked by courtly patronage of art, architecture, and design. The magnificent surviving civic and religious buildings and objects indicate the richness and variety of form and decoration within Indian material culture at this time. The Mughal emperors dominated the subcontinent, and their power, wealth,...
PublisherBard Graduate Center
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.175-195
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00219.008
Description: History of Design: Decorative Arts and Material Culture 1400–2000
~~From the fifteenth through the seventeenth century, the Indian subcontinent (comprising present-day India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka) was a land consisting of dozens of states of various sizes. Many of these were gradually incorporated into more extensive and powerful kingdoms and empires, until by the end of the sixteenth...
PublisherBard Graduate Center
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.33-47
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00219.002