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Hardcover. Condition: VG+/VG+. Hardcover with orange cloth wrap and color glossy printed dustjacket. 399 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps This item is still in the original unopened plastic wrap. Around 1700, artists in Udaipur began creating large, immersive paintings to convey the mood of the city's palaces, lakes, and mountains. A Splendid Land explores how painters depicted places, mapped terrains, celebrated water resources, and triggered memories to foster political and personal attachments to land. With dazzling works made over a period of two hundred years that extends from Mughal to colonial India, and by drawing upon previously untranslated sources and engaging with the history of the senses, this publication opens early modern art history to new interpretative possibilities, while revealing the visual logic and beauty of Udaipur paintings. Foreword by the City Palace Museum / Shriji Arvind Singh Mewar -- Foreword by the National Museum of Asian Art / Chase F. Robinson -- Essays. -- A splendid land / Debra Diamond and Dipti Khera -- Mannered Moods: sound and sense in Mewar painting and poetry / Richard David Williams -- Cultural landscapes and the creation of mood / Debra Diamond and Dipti Khera -- Conserving the City Palace Museum Complex at Udaipur / Shikha Jain -- Catalogue entries: From ideal to encountered worlds. -- In the beginning. Udaipur painting in the seventeenth century / Catherine Glynn -- Unscrolling the history of Mewar Kings / Cynthia Talbot -- The architecture of ambience in the eighteenth century / Dipti Khera -- Catalogue entries: Moods of place. -- Lake Pichola and the Aravalli mountains / Dipti Khera -- Lake palaces and pleasure / Dipti Khera -- Inside the City Palace / Dipti Khera -- Celebrations in the Manek Chowk -- Debra Diamond -- Moods of the Kacheri Mahal / Shailka Mishra -- Beyond the palace gates / Dipti Khera -- "The mood of Nahar Magra" / Debra Diamond -- Immersive Terrains: Tikhliya Magra and Ubeshwari / Debra Diamond -- Catalogue entries: Social networks. -- The moods of diplomacy / Dipti Khera -- "The pleasures of Sirdar Singh" / Dipti Khera -- Social terrains: Devali and Sobhagpur / Debra Diamond -- Mapping royal weddings / Debra Diamond -- Catalogue entries: Moods of devotion. -- Heaven on earth / Debra Diamond -- "The mood of Shri Eklingji" / Dipti Khera -- Krishna in Kankroli / Shailka Mishra -- Navratri celebrations outside the city / Shailka Mishra and Emma N. Stein -- Blind poet, divine sight / John Stratton Hawley -- The mood of desire / Molly Emma Aitken -- Cosmos and the lake city / Caroline Widmer -- Catalogue entries: Time and mood. -- Monsoon moods / Dipti Khera -- Monsoon imaginaries / Debra Diamond -- Monsoon terrains / Debra Diamond -- Springtime celebrations / Debra Diamond and Dipti Khera -- The duration of ambience / Debra Diamond -- Traveling light: photographs from Udaipur / Robin Owen Joyce -- Back matter. -- Behind the frame: conservation at the City Palace Museum / Anuja Mukherjee, Bhasha Shah, P.M. Vasundhara, Saloni Ghuwalewala, and S. Girikumar.