April 8, 2018
J. Paul Getty Museum
Los Angeles, CA
To elucidate the importance of India for the Dutch artist Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (1606–1669) and other Europeans of his time, this symposium traces historical, political, economic, and artistic points of contact between Europe and the Mughal Indian Empire in the early modern period. Using the Getty’s exhibition Rembrandt and the Inspiration of India as their starting point, scholars will demonstrate how Mughal paintings and drawings were brought to Europe not as merely exotic curiosities, but also carried with them specific associations of political authority and exceptional artifice.
Program
10:00–10:15 a.m. Welcome: Richard Rand, Associate Director for Collections, J. Paul Getty Museum
10:15–11:00 a.m. How Rembrandt Mediated Mughal Painting: Papering Over Global Art, Benjamin Schmidt, Giovanni & Amne Costigan Endowed Professor, Department of History, University of Washington, Seattle
11:00–11:40 a.m. Rembrandt through Mughal Eyes, Navina Haidar, Curator, Islamic Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Moderator: Catherine Glynn, Independent Scholar
11:40 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Discussion
12:30–1:30 p.m. Lunch (on your own)
1:30–2:15 p.m. Indo–Dutch Entanglements in the Age of Rembrandt, Jos Gommans, Professor of Colonial and Global History, Institute for History, Leiden University
2:15–3:00 p.m. Philip Angel’s Indian Travels and their Literary and Artistic Echoes, 1650s–1670s, Carolien Stolte, Assistant Professor, Institute for History, Leiden University
Moderator: Stephanie Schrader, Curator of Drawings, J. Paul Getty Museum
3:00–3:30 p.m. Discussion
3:30–3:50 p.m. Break
3:50–4:35 p.m. Collecting Exotica, Picturing New Worlds, Jessica Keating, Assistant Professor of Early Modern Art and Architecture, Carleton College
4:35–5:20 p.m. From Awadh to Avignon: Examining the French Reception of Mughal Art, Chanchal Dadlani, Assistant Professor of Art History, Wake Forest University
Moderator: Yael Rice, Assistant Professor of Art & the History of Art and of Asian Languages and Civilizations, Amherst College
5:20–5:40 p.m. Discussion
RegistrationAdvance registration is recommended. Visit http://www.getty.edu/ museum/programs/lectures/rembrandt_symposium.html or call (310) 440–7300 to register. Registration does not include parking, which is $15 per car and can be paid using the self–service pay stations.
