#  Five College Renaissance Seminar with Yael Rice, Amherst College 

 



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 **February 29, 2024** 

 04:30PM - 04:30PM EST 

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 **Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, 650 East Pleasant St. Amherst**  



 

 



 

Yael Rice (PhD, University of Pennsylvania) specializes in the art and architecture of South Asia and Greater Iran, with a particular focus on manuscripts and other portable arts of the fifteenth through eighteenth centuries.  Rice's current research concerns physiognomic analysis as a courtly and artistic practice, Mughal depictions of imperial dreams, paintings made for the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb (r. 1658-1707), and material and object encounters across the globe during the early modern period, the latter an interdisciplinary collaboration. She is also in the process of preparing a monograph entitled *The Emperor’s Eye and the Painter’s Brush: Artists and Agency at the Mughal Court*, based on her [2011 dissertation](http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/7177); and is co-editing an e-publication on the “life” of a [Qur’an manuscript](http://sites.sas.upenn.edu/nep27wksp) copied in Iran in the twelfth century. Her [previous publications](https://amherst.academia.edu/YaelRice) include studies of European engravings and Persian calligraphic specimens in Mughal royal albums, the 1598–99 Mughal *Razmnama* (Book of war), and an early fifteenth-century *Khamsa* (Quintet) of Nizami copied and illustrated in the region of Fars, Iran.



 

 



 

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