Examine the interaction between the aesthetic values of East and West in the Mogul courts of India
What will be an ideal response?
The Mogul ruler Akbar urged his court artists to study Western art practices, as shown in the paintings and prints that the Portuguese brought beginning in the 1570s. They began by admiring genres such as the miniature and the portrait. Angels and cupids, Western inventions, began appearing in Mogul imagery.
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The director and playwright George C. Wolfe’s The Colored Museum (1986), structured around eleven exhibits
about African American life, is best described as a utopian play.
a. True b. False
As the Gothic period progressed, all of the following architectural innovations occurred except __________
a. walls were pierced by greater expanses of glass b. exterior walls appeared heavier c. nave elevations became higher d. carved details became lacier e. rose windows became common