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Mahesha - Qasam al-Abbas Arrives from Mecca and Crushes Tahmasp with a Mace
This battle scene comes from a monumental manuscript of the Hamzanama that was produced for the Mughal Emperor Akbar (1556-1605). Based on a Persian legend, the Hamzanama was transmitted across the Muslim world, including India. Here the hero Qasam a ...

The Great Goddess Durga Slaying the Buffalo Demon (Mahishasuramardini)
The most common image of a buffalo (mahisha in Sanskrit) is Mahishasura, the buffalo demon. Son of a buffalo, Mahishasura gained power over the world and plunged it into chaos. To destroy him, the gods pooled their energies to create the great goddes ...

anonyme - Rondel Depicting Holofernes s Army Crossing The Euphrates River
vitrail Sainte Chapelle Paris ...

anonyme - combat d'elephants
Elephant combats in Kota took place in the palace courtyard, while the ruler and his courtiers looked down from a high balcony. An elephant was placed to either side of a short wall, against which they would batter until the strongest vaulted the wal ...

art inde - anonyme - Krishna And Radha
This unusually large painting was not intended as an illustration for a book, yet its subject matter celebrates one of the most famous love relationships in Indian literature. Stories of Radha and Krishna take place in everyday life, thus emphasizing ...

Khushala - The Gods Sing and Dance for Shiva and Parvati
Shiva and his wife Parvati rest on a tiger skin as they watch a pair of dancers accompanied by divine musicians. The group of performers is so large that it winds away behind the trees. Shiva, the great yogi, can be identified by his ash-white skin, ...

Khushala - The Gods Sing and Dance for Shiva and Parvati (detail)
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