by Jon Lackman | 6 October 2009 | Uncategorized
Tonight at the Metropolitan Museum, Salman Rushdie in conversation with curator Carmen Bambach, curator Navina Haidar Haykel, and Harvard professor David Roxburgh:
Salman Rushdie’s novel The Enchantress of Florence brings together Renaissance Italy, Mughal India, and the cultures that lie between in a tale that has been described as a “sumptuous mixture of history and fable.” The book combines imaginative stories with meticulously researched historical detail, referring widely to works of art of the period. Artists and their creations—from gilded manuscript pages to monumental architecture—form a key to the central themes of the book. In evoking them, Enchantress brings the world of the art historian alive. Rushdie will talk with curators and art historians to explore the aspects of the novel that deal with the visual arts, culture, and historical setting of the period.
