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...Fogg two exhibits are in progress: Art of Mughal India and Ottoman Turkey (through January 23) and Italian Drawings of the Renaissance and Baroque (through January...
...however faintly, is that of art. Given the collections of it in the U.S., not to mention the undying appetite for Oriental carpets, one could hardly say that Islamic art is unfamiliar to Americans. Yet the ceramics and glasswork, the architecture and mural decoration, the metalwork and (except for Mughal miniatures) the paintings that form the relics of this vast imperial culture are much less known to museumgoers than their equivalents from Japan or China...
...Chosen and elegantly catalogued by Art Historian Stuart Carey Welch, the 86 miniatures from American collections constitute one of the year's more delectable shows. The word Mogul has come, for us, to signify gross, unvarnished power: the beefy hand on the limousine telephone. But the Mughal emperors, the Muslim despots who left their dynastic name to the English tongue, lived within a structure of taste so exquisite that there are few Western parallels...
...nuances of custom, dress and etiquette are preserved on those brilliantly colored and gilded scraps of paper. An 18th century rajah, ensconced on a swing, conducts an orchestra of stiffly profiled girls against the beautifully austere background of his black and white marble palace (see color page); a Mughal potentate presides over the fertility celebration of Holi, while the white-robed members of his court play at a mock battle, squirting each other with red dye from syringes...
...longer be the political scapegoats of a capricious dictator. Some had studied up on America. "I know the largest building is the Empire State," said Dolly Nasser, 23, a nurse. "And they are going to put even more stories on it." A bearded, wiry welder named Mahmood Ilani Mughal remarked: "I lost everything, but I am glad to be here. My two hands are here. They are my tools and I will rebuild again, with the help of Almighty...