JOURNEYS--Selected Art by Gulammohammed Sheikh

JOURNEYS: Selected Art by Gulammohammed Sheikh

Acknowledgements

Gulammohammed Sheikh gratefully acknowledges the following authors and publishers for the use of quotations/reproductions from following books, magazines, newspapers and picture postcards:

For the Mappamundi Suite:
Books:
Mevlana and The Mevlana Museum, Mehmet Onder, Aksit Kultur Turizm Sanat Ajans Ltd. Sti., Istanbul, (pp. 16, 18, back cover); Indian Miniatures, The Ehrenfeld Collection, By Daniel J Ehnbom; Hudson Hills Press, New York, (p. 115); Nainsukh of Guler, B N Goswamy; Artibus Asiae Publishers, Zurich, Switzerland, (p. 235); Duccio, L'opera Completa di, Giulio Cattaneo, Edi Baccheschi; Rizzoli Editore, Milano, (pp. LIX, LX); Gift of Conquerors, Hand Papermaking in India, Alexandra Soteriou, Mapin Publishing Pvt. Ltd.; (p. 79); Siyah Qalem, Mazhar S. Ipsiroglu, Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt Graz-Australia, (pl. 2, 13, 30, 57, 58, 64); The City Palace Museum Udaipur, Paintings of Mewar Court Life, Andrew Topsfield, Mapin Publishing Pvt. Ltd., Ahmedabad, (p. 117); A King's Book of Kings, The Shah-Nameh of Shah Tahmasp, Stuart Cary Welch, Imprimeries Reunies, Lausanne, Switzerland, (verso 23, 36, 37); The Emperor Akbar's Khamsa of Nizami, Barbara Brend, The British Library, (pp. 7, 31, 36, 49, 64); The Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi, Elvio Lunghi, SCALA, Antella (pp. 92, 116, 124, 127, 128, 145); The Adventures of Hamza, Painting and Storytelling in Mughal India, John Seyller, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, (pp. 11, 82, 99, 104, 140, 179, 194, 242, 254); A Second Paradise, Indian Courtly Life, Naveen Patnaik, Rupa & Co., (pp. 62, 63, 65, 70, 71); Timur and the Princely Vision, Persian Art & Culture in the Fifteenth Century, Thomas W Lentz and Glenn D. Lowry, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Arthur M Sackler Gallery, (pp. 96, 250); Deccani Painting, Mark Zebrowski, Roli Books International, (pp. 51, 85, 89, 118); Indian Maps and Plans from earliest times to the advent of European Surveys, Susan Gole, Manohar Publications, New Delhi, (p. 63); Life at Court: Art for India's Rulers, 16th-19th c., Visakha N Desai, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, (p. 67); India: Art and Culture 1300-1900, Stuart Cary Welch, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, (pp. 212, 213); Essence of Indian Art, B N Goswamy, Mapin Publishing Pvt. Ltd., Ahmedabad, (p. 220); The Classical Tradition in Rajput Painting, Pratapaditya Pal, The Pierpont Morgan Library, The Gallery Association of New York State, (pl. 54); Cappadocia, The Cradle of Civilization, Omer Demir, Ajans-Turk Pub & Printing Co. Inc. (UCHISAR); Siena, Florence and Padua: Art, Society and Religion 1280-1400 Vol. II: Case Studies, Ed. By Diana Norman, Yale University Press, New Haven & London, (P. 100)

Magazines:
Frontline, May 24, 2002 (p. 5); Outlook, April 8, 2002 (p. 32), Time, May 10, 2004, (p.12) ; May 17, 2004, (p.28); Time Special Report, May 17, 2004. )

Newspapers:
Indian Express, May 30, 2004 (p. 18)

Picture postcards:
Ebstorf Mappamundi, Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress Looking from Princes Street Gardens toward the Majestic Castle in Edinburgh, Scotland's capital city; Saint Francis Preaching Birds, Giotto, the Louvre; Hanuman Flying Over Ocean Pandit Seu, Guler, Pahari, 1720 Museum Rietberg Zurich; Locusts Come Upon the Earth, Monastery of San Pedro de Cardena, Burgos, ca. 1180, Rest on the flight to Egypt Joachim Patenier ( 1480-1524); Temple mount, bird's eye view Jerusalem,; Parinirrvana of Buddha, Gal Vihar, Sri Lanka, 12 C; The Destruction of Sodom and Gommorrah,Joachim De Patenir (active 1515-1524) The Temptation of Christ on the Mountain, Duccio du Buoninsegna (c. 1255-1319);The Salem Ship Friendship, 1805,George Ropes; The Miracle of Saint Nicolas of Tolentino, Giovanni Di Paolo (Italian, c. 1403-1482); Federico da Montefeltro, Piero Della Francesca, Galleria degli Uffiz, Florence ; Geet Govind, Kangra, 1780, Lalit Kala Akademi Portfolio; Kabir with disciples ,Mughal, 18th C., The British Museum; Temple Mount, Jerusalem,; The Southern Constellations according to the ancients, A chart from the celestial atlas Harmonia Macrocosmica by Andreas Cellarius. Pub. In Amsterdam ; Triptych: The Torture of Saint Hippolyte, St. Salvator Kathedraal, Bruge ; View of the Court House and Court Street in Salem, William Henry Luscomb (attrib.), 1839-45, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Mass; La Thebaide, Gherardo Starnina, Florence - Galleria Uffizi; St. Francis in Ecstasy, Giovanni Bellini, C. 1430-1516; View of an Ideal City ,School of Piero Della Francesca, C. 1480;Siena,Aerial View - Market Square; Guernica, 1937, Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973); Mary Magdalene, Piero della Francesca (1415/20-192); Prophet Elias by Basavana , Mughal, 1567-1572 ; Saint Francis (1266-1337),Giovanni di Paolo, Pinacoteca Nazionale, Siena; The Fire, Giuseppe Archimboldo.

For Talisman (twins 1-4):

(First row of squares from left to right) 'Dancing nomads' by Siyah Qalem, Turkey, 15th cent.; Radha from Geet Govinda, Pahari,18th cent.; Mi'raj (angels observing the Prophet's Miraculous Flight), Iran , 16th cent.; Head of courtesan with a rose, Kalighat, 19th cent.; (Second row) Krishna fluting from a Mewar painting, 17th cent.; Auspicious sign, jade, China, 5th to 3rd cent. B.C.; St Dominque from 'Flagellation' by Fra Angelico, San Marco, Florence, 15th cent.; (Third row) Gabriel and Madonna from ' Annunciation' by Fra Angelico, San Marco, Florence, 15th cent.; Ganesha, Chola, 1200 A.D.; St Luke from the Book of Kells, Irish, 7th cent.; (Fourth row) Kamadhenu, Orissa, Siva, Chola, 11th cent.; (Fifth row) Goddess Isis, Egypt, 12th cent. B.C.; Unicorn tapestry, France, 15th cent.; (Vertical row extreme right) Priest making an offering, Chiapas.