Gods and Animals in a Landscape, Fragment from a Scene of Buddha Shakyamuni's Sermon to Indra
Pakistan, Peshawar Division (?), Gandhara region, 2nd-early 3rd century
Sculpture
Gray schist with traces of paint
Source: Los Angeles County Museum of Art
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Vishnu as The Universal Form, watercolour on paper, early 19th century, Jaipur.
This striking painting shows the blue-skinned Hindu god Vishnu in his form as the Universal Form or Vishvarupa, which means 'all forms'. The small figures painted on his body refer to his role as encompassing all of ...
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Yoga Narashimha, Vishnu in his Man-Lion Avatar, c. 1250
South India, late Chola Period (9th-13th Century)
Bronze
According to Hindu legend, the god Brahma granted King Hiranyakashipu a remarkable boon stipulating that the king could not be killed by man or beast, indoors or outdoors, on earth or...
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Muhammad Adil Shah of Bijapur and his African Prime Minister Ikhlas Khan
Bijapur 1650-1675
Watercolor
Opaque watercolor and gold on paper; border: paper embossed with gold
The House of Bijapur
Painting by Kamal Muhammad and Chand Muhammad (active 1680s)
Illustrated album leaf
ca. 1680
Deccan, Bijapur
Ink, opaque watercolor, gold, and silver on paper
Painted Cloth (Pichwai) Depicting the Celebration of the Festival of Cows
Late 18th–early 19th century
Deccan, India
Painted and printed gold and silver leaf, opaque watercolor on indigo-dyed cotton
Article:
The Ajanta cave murals: 'nothing less than the birth of Indian art'.
By William Dalrymple
The Guardian
The paintings are possibly the finest surviving picture galleries from the ancient world. Now, the oldest in two of the caves – hidden for decades – have been painstakingly restored to...
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Copy of painting in the caves of Ajanta by Robert Gill, oil on canvas, 1850-1854, India.
This is a copy of a painting in cave 1 at Ajanta. The white patches cover fragile areas that require conservation work. The Ajanta cave paintings are the oldest surviving examples of painting in India. They ...
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Article:
Unseen Ajanta
By William Dalrymple
Outlook Magazine - November 24, 2014
The oldest classical Indian paintings, retrieved from time, and decay.
..."More exciting still, this earliest phase of work is not just very old, but very fine indeed and painted in a quite different style, and usi...
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Article:
How the Ajanta murals were created
By Aishwarya Pramod
The Magic Tours of India Blog
The Ajanta cave paintings (from around 200 BCE to 500 CE) represent India's art at a great height of sophistication and skill. These scenes of the life of Buddha and the bodhisattvas, natural beauty and...
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Article:
Operation Hidden Idol: The Struggle To Bring Back Indian Antiquities
By S. Vijay Kumar
Swarajya
After the first part on how artefacts worth millions are smuggled from India because of the indifference of the authorities, the sequel looks at what happens to these lost Gods in an unendin...
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Digital Rare Book:
Satarudriya: Vibhuti Or Shiva's Iconography
Calambur Sivaramamurti
Published by Abhinav Publications - 1976
The present book on ‘Satarudriya: Vibhuti of Siva’s Iconography’ is not only the text from the Krishnayajurveda Taittiriya Samhita with its translation but is a discussi...
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