The Art and Architecture of South Asia

This course covers the arts of South Asia beginning in the 2nd century BCE. Topics will include the relationship between architecture, sculpture and the religions of the region, networks of court painting, Islamic art and architecture, forms of patronage, and art making and changing ecologies of power in South Asia. Lectures may cover a range of media including painting, calligraphy, architecture, sculpture and prints. Class discussions will focus on formal and material concerns, as well as the religious, historical or political contexts in which these works were produced.