The Last great Mughal's art: Might in Miniature before the Fall

THE GUARDIAN
By William Dalrymple

Bhupal Singh Muhammad Shah celebrating Holi, c1737.
Photograph: Bodleian Library, University of Oxford

INDIA - Eighteenth-century Delhi saw a cultural renaissance, as painters, poets and jewellers were entertained at the declining Mughal court. But today their exquisite art is under-appreciated. The result, "Princes and Painters in Mughal Delhi 1707-1857," through May 6, 2012, Asia Society in New York: 725 Park Avenue (at 70th Street), (212)288-6400, asiasociety.org [link]