The Throne of the Great Mogul in Dresden: The Ultimate Artwork of the Baroque

Contents\nIllustrations\nNote on Names and Dates\nAcknowledgments\nIntroduction: The Prince, the Jeweler, and the Mogul\n1. Mirrors (or, Fantasies of Absolute Rule)\n2. Crowns (or, The Men Who Would Be Kings)\n3. Thrones (or, The Prince, the Mogul, and Cultural Mixing)\n4. Rulers (or, When the Age of Absolutism Met the First Age of Globalism)\n5. Scales (or, Figuring Miniatures in Princely Courts)\n6. Miniatures (or, The Early Modern Moment of the Micro-Object)\n7. Magi (or, Miniatures Between Sacrality and Play)\n8. Hands (and Frogs and Pyramids)\n9. Gods (or, The Global History of Pagan Religion)\n10. Scripts (or, Framing the Mogul in the Global History of Writing)\n11. Uniqueness (or, Accounting for the Unaccountable)\n12. Epilogue The Prince, the Alchemist, and the Emperor of China (or, How Dinglinger and the Großmogul Lost the Battle with Modernity)\nNotes\nPhotographic Credits\nIndex