Karwaan: The Heritage Exploration Intiative invites you to the Karwaan Distinguished Lecutre by Prof. Ebba Koch titled Jahangir’s Elephants: Monumental Sculpture for a Mughal Padshah on 16th June 2021 at 5 PM IST on the Facebook Page of Karwaan.
About the Speaker: Prof. Ebba Koch is currently Professor Emerita, Institute of Art History, University of Vienna (Austria). Prof. Koch has spent much of her professional life studying the architecture, art, and culture of the Mughal Empire, and is considered a leading authority on Mughal architecture.
In 2001 she became the architectural advisor to the Taj Mahal Conservation Collaborative.
She taught as a visiting professor at Oxford (2008) and Harvard (2008/09) and was a senior researcher at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (2009-2014) and Tagore National Fellow for Cultural Research under the Indian Ministry of Culture (2015-2017). Dr. Koch has conducted major surveys of Mughal architecture in the Indian Subcontinent. Her other research interests are Mughal painting and applied art, the political, social and symbolic meaning of art, and the artistic connections between the Mughals and their neighbours and Europe. She has published widely on these topics: her major publications are Mughal Architecture (1991/2014), Mughal Art and Imperial Ideology (2001), The Complete Taj Mahal and the Riverfront Gardens of Agra (2006/2012), and as co-author with M.C. Beach, King of the World: The Padshahnama: An Imperial Mughal Manuscript from the Royal Library, Windsor Castle (1997). Most recently she edited together with Ali Anooshahr the collective volume The Mughal Empire from Jahangir to Shah Jahan (2019).
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Τετάρτη, 16 Ιουνίου 2021 στις 2:30 μ.μ. UTC+03
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