Coinciding with the publication of the present issue, The Burlington Magazine is launching its most ambitious initiative since its foundation in 1903. This is Burlington Contemporary, an online platform for reviews and new research on contemporary art, which is accessed through our website.1 Every week it will publish reviews of current exhibitions and new books. 

This magesterial catalogue of the Eva and Konrad Seitz Collection of Pahari miniature paintings provides more than the standard descriptive analysis that is usually presented in such books, and serves as an important addition to the scholarship of classical Indian painting. Eva and Konrad Seitz began collecting Pahari miniature paintings in the late 1960s, recognising the significance of Rajput paintings that originated from the Hindu schools of northern India and Rajasthan between the seventeenth century and the nineteenth over the more popular naturalistic Mughal paintings.

Originally a tenth-century medieval fortress and later a hunting lodge of Emperor Maximilian I (1459–1519), Schloss Ambras was enlarged and transformed into a Renaissance palace by Archduke Ferdinand II of Tyrol (1529–95).