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ادوات السجل العروض	تفاصيل إزالة من الاختيار ضف للاختيار CollectionSouth & Southeast Asian Collection رقم الكائنS1959-0041-001-0 العنوانLady Beckoning To A Peacock الوصفIn Lady Beckoning to a Peacock, the bird, whose thirst is proverbial, was believed in the drier areas of India to induce rain. The peacock was (and continues to be) the symbol of romantic and passionate love. In 1963, the Indian government accorded the peacock the status of the National Bird. Likewise, most of the other objects represented in perceptive concepts that depict how courtly life was to be remembered and understood through an artistic medium. Miniature painters employed at various royal courts, during the “medieval” period, discovered the potential of expression in their depiction of how later generations of artists and nationalists fighting for Indian independence from colonialism would turn to, in expressing eclectic modes of being which encompass often unnoticed syncretism within the seemingly “Islamic” as Munhall and “Hindu” as Rajput motifs that the practice of miniature painting so vividly hybridizes. مكان الإنتاجIndia, Rajasthan فترة الإنتاج18th C صنف القطعةPainting مادةDye on Paper, Dye, Paper الأبعاد H: 32.5 cm L: 21 cm Credit lineDonated by the Indian Government

CollectionSouth & Southeast Asian Collection

رقم الكائنS1959-0041-001-0

العنوانLady Beckoning To A Peacock

الوصفIn Lady Beckoning to a Peacock, the bird, whose thirst is proverbial, was believed in the drier areas of India to induce rain. The peacock was (and continues to be) the symbol of romantic and passionate love. In 1963, the Indian government accorded the peacock the status of the National Bird. Likewise, most of the other objects represented in perceptive concepts that depict how courtly life was to be remembered and understood through an artistic medium. Miniature painters employed at various royal courts, during the “medieval” period, discovered the potential of expression in their depiction of how later generations of artists and nationalists fighting for Indian independence from colonialism would turn to, in expressing eclectic modes of being which encompass often unnoticed syncretism within the seemingly “Islamic” as Munhall and “Hindu” as Rajput motifs that the practice of miniature painting so vividly hybridizes.

مكان الإنتاجIndia, Rajasthan

فترة الإنتاج18th C

صنف القطعةPainting

مادةDye on Paper, Dye, Paper

الأبعاد

H: 32.5 cm
L: 21 cm

Credit lineDonated by the Indian Government

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