THE EULOGY OF BADSHAH JAHANGIR: CULTURAL, HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL CONTEXT IN THE MUGHAL VISUAL PANEGYRIC
The article is devoted to problems of the interpretation of the Mughal allegorical portrait. The author discusses the complex process of transformation of verbal signs into visual signs on a material of the pictorial panegyric. The article addresses the issues connected with various aspects of the visualization of concepts and motifs common in the Mughal culture. It is also shown that the formation of the royal portrait was influenced by political and socio-cultural realities of the time. Their introduction into visual text contributed to the actualization and concretization of the literary mythologems that formed the basis of the Mughal ideological programme.
Keywords: mughal miniature, allegorical portrait, visual panegyric, badshah Jahangir
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