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Posted on: 2 January 2012
The Mysore Procession Painting
Thursday, November 25th, 2010
Rembrandt’s Night Watch includes portraits of 18 people. But the Mysore procession painting in the first room of the exhibition introduces us to over 1,250 individuals, each with a particular look and dress. How could a single artist complete such a work?
Read more:
http://artmatters.ca/wp/2010/11/the-mysore-procession-painting/
Read more: http://artmatters.ca/wp/2010/11/the-mysore-procession-painting/
Night Watch or The Night Watch or The Shooting Company of Frans Banning Cocq (Dutch: De Nachtwacht) is the common name of one of the most famous works by Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn. The painting may be more properly titled The Company of Frans Banning Cocq and Willem van Ruytenburch. It is on prominent display in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, being the best known painting in their collection. The Night Watch is considered to be one of the most famous paintings in the world. Read more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Watch_(painting)
The Procession Look carefully at the people depicted – look at their clothes, postures, gestures. Many different groups of people are represented. What does that tell you about the significance of this procession? http://www.ago.net/procession-of-krishnaraja-wadiyar-through-mysore
A large image of this painting: http://www.ago.net/assets/images/555/teachers-X-02810-large.jpg
Beautiful.
British Commander seems to be the most important person in the procession, as he has the biggest face in the picture, bigger than Maharaja.
Marvellous!