B. N. Goswamy
B.N. Goswamy, a distinguished art historian is Professor Emeritus of Art
History at Panjab University, Chandigarh. His work covers a wide range of
subjects, and is regarded, especially in the area of Indian painting, as having
influenced most thinking. He has been the recipient of many honours, including
the Jawaharlal Nehru Fellowship, the Rietberg Award for Outstanding Research in
Art History, the JDR III Fellowship, the Mellon Senior Fellowship and, from the
President of India, Padma Shri (1998) and Padma Bhushan (2008). Apart from
Panjab University, Professor Goswamy has taught, as Visiting Professor, in
major universities across the world, and has been responsible for significant
exhibitions of Indian art at international venues. He is the author of
over twenty-five books on Indian art and culture, including Pahari Painting: The Family as the Basis of Style (1968); Painters at the Sikh Court: A Study Based on
Twenty Documents (1975); A
Place Apart: Paintings from Kutch (1983); The
Essence of Indian Art (1986); Wonders
of a Golden Age: Painting at the Courts of the Great Mughals (1987); Pahari Masters: Court Painters of Northern India (with
E. Fischer, 1992); Indian
Costumes in the Calico Museum of Textiles (1993); Nainsukh
of Guler: A great Indian Painter from a small Hill State (1997); Domains of Wonder: Selected Masterworks of
Indian Painting (with C. Smith, 2005); and,
more recently, The
Spirit of Indian Painting: Close Encounters with 100 Great Works (2014,
2016) and Pahari
Paintings: The Horst Metzger Collection in the Museum Rietberg (with
E. Fischer, 2018).