Andrew S. Topsfield is Keeper of Eastern Art at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.[1][2][3] He was educated at Winchester College and the universities of Oxford and London. In 1978 he joined the Indian section of the Victoria and Albert Museum as an assistant keeper and moved to the Ashmolean Museum as assistant keeper of eastern art in 1984.
Selected publications edit
- Ed., Court painting in Rajasthan, Bombay, 2000.
- "Court painting at Udaipur: Art under the patronage of the Maharanas of Mewar", Artibus Asiae Supplementum XLIV, Zurich, 2002.
- Ed., with R. Crill and S. Stronge, Arts of Mughal India: Studies in honour of Robert Skelton, Ahmedabad and London, 2004.
- Ed., In the realm of gods and kings: Arts of India, London, 2004 (repr. 2014).
- Ed., The art of play: Board and card games of India, Bombay, 2006.
- 'Snakes and Ladders in India: Some further discoveries', Artibus Asiae, LXVI, 1, 2006, 143-79.
- Paintings from Mughal India, Oxford: Bodleian Library, 2008 (repr. 2013).
- ‘Sahibdin’, in M.C. Beach, B.N. Goswamy and E. Fischer eds., Masters of Indian painting, Zurich, 2011, vol. 1, 391-406.
- Visions of Mughal India: The collection of Howard Hodgkin, Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2012.
References edit
- ^ Faculty of Oriental Studies (29 April 2015). "Andrew Topsfield - Academic Staff - Faculty of Oriental Studies - University of Oxford". Orinst.ox.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 9 May 2017. Retrieved 3 May 2017.
- ^ "Andrew Topsfield". Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology – University of Oxford. Retrieved 3 May 2017.
- ^ "The Khalili Research Centre - Dr Andrew S. Topsfield". Faculty Of Oriental Studies. Archived from the original on 15 June 2017. Retrieved 3 May 2017.
External links edit
- "Indian Paintings from Oxford collections". ACC Publishing Group. Retrieved 3 May 2017.[permanent dead link]
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