Opulence and Fantasy: The Sultans of Deccan India 1500–1700

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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Sultan ‘Ali ‘Adil Shah II Slays a Tiger (c. 1660), Attributed to the Bombay Painter (probably Abdul Hamid Naqqash), Bijapur. The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Lent by Howard Hodgkin

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Over the past few decades, the curious and the scholarly have put South India’s little-known Deccani art and its contextual architecture, literature and history firmly on the map. Now the time is ripe to give it the coming-of-age show it deserves…Read more of Louise Nicholson’s review

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