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Family of Nainsukh - Heroine Rushing to Her Lover (Abhisarika Nayika )
Ignoring all the hazards of nature -- night's blackness, pelting rain, streaking lightning above and striking cobras below -- the heroine rushes through the forest to her lover. Glancing over her shoulder she sees not her lost jewelry fallen on the g ...

art inde - Torso of a fertility goddess (yakshi), (25 B.C. - 25 A.D.)
Sunga period
Madhya Pradesh ...

Mohammed Abdur Rahman Chughtai - Hiraman Tota
Mohammed Abdur Rahman Chughtai from Lahore now in Pakistan, belonged to a family of traditional artists and architects, originally from Persia. He grew up with the language of the miniature tradition and this made him respond to the aesthetics of the ...

Kshitindranath Majumdar - Rasa Lila 20th Century
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Hemendranath Majumdar - toilet
Hemendranath Majumdar became famous for his female forms, even though he was a recognized portraitist and a good landscape painter. The figure of the woman is laden with nuanced eroticism. The painting shows a partially dressed woman obviously from a ...

Raja Ravi Varma - Woman Holding A Fruit Late 19th Century
Ravi Varma was born into an aristocratic family of Kerala. He taught himself the intricacies of oil painting and the practices of European naturalism. ‘Woman Holding a Fruit’ shows Ravi Varma’s mastery over the idioms of a new visua ...

Maharana Sangram II visiting Gosain Nilakanthaji after a tiger hunt (c. 1725) (detail)
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Maharana Sangram II visiting Gosain Nilakanthaji after a tiger hunt (c. 1725)
A distinctive genre of Rajput painting that developed at the court of Maharana Sangram Singh II (r. 1710–34) is tamasha painting. Painted on large sheets of thick, wasli paper, tamasha paintings record state occasions, seasonal festivals, and s ...

anonyme - Archery 1620
Archery is a popular game since ancient times among the rural as well as urban areas of India. The history of archery can be traced back to ancient times when bow and arrows were used as a weapon for hunting wild animals. For millenniums the twin &nd ...

anonyme - Archery 1620 (detail)
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anonyme - Baz Bahadur And Rani Rupmati
The romantic legend of the mid sixteenth century of Sultan Baz Bahadur of Mandu and his beautiful Queen Rupmati has been immortalized in the songs and couplets of Ahmad-ul-Umri Turkman written in 1599. Baz-Bahadur the handsome Sultan of Mandu in Cent ...

anonyme - Celebrations Of Krishna s Birth
Krishna, as is popularly believed, was born in the prison of Kamsa, the ruler of Mathura. Krishna was the eighth child of Devaki and Vasudeva. At the time of the marriage of Devaki, Kamsa’s sister, it was predicted that her eighth child would s ...

anonyme - Celebrations Of Krishna s Birth (detail 1)
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anonyme - Celebrations Of Krishna s Birth (detail 2)
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anonyme - Celebrations Of Krishna s Birth (detail 3)
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anonyme - Chand Bibi Playing Polo
Polo or Chaugan bazi, a traditional outdoor game among royal families till the eighteenth century, was an old pastime of the feudal class. It was while playing polo in 1210 that Qutab-din-Aibak had died falling from his horse. The game of polo was ge ...

anonyme - Chand Bibi Playing Polo (detail)
In this miniature, five princesses are shown playing polo against a dark green background. The princesses are mounted on beautifully decorated stallions of white, blue, dark brown and pale yellow colours. The colourful costumes and bejeweled head dre ...

anonyme - Cowherd Krishna And Surprised Radha
The poet Keshvadasa of Orchha, the capital seat of Bundelas in central India, composed his famous poetry Rasikapriya in 1592 AD. This picture of Bundi style is based on the love sports of Radha and Krishna. The poet describes in Rasikapriya- love, se ...

anonyme - daily life in a village
It is an uncommon subject depicting scenes from daily life in a typical Indian village, like cooking, milking, churning, grinding, winnowing and cleaning the houses. One can see an old lady is busy with spinning wheel while two young ladies are shown ...

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anonyme - Fainted Laila and Majnun-Based on the Khamsa of Persian poet Nizami
a great musician. One day while hunting he saw the beautiful Rupmati in the dense forest singing melodious songs. Instantly he fell in love with her. In order to win her hand in marriage he requested Than Singh, a proud Thakur of the area and father ...

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anonyme - Hero Enjoying The Bathing Beauty
Beauty expresses itself in various shades but the scenes related to snana and shringara, that is, bathing and adornment reveal beauty in its utmost lustre. The Indian art has produced some of the best examples of female beauty by exploring it during ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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art inde - Krishna Abducting Rukmani from the Temple
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art inde - Akbar visits the tomb of Khwajah Mu'in ad-Din Chishti at Ajmer
Akbar visits the shrine of Khwajah Mu'in ad-Din Chishti at Ajmer. Painting from the Akbarnama, ca. 1590-1595.
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