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Handlinger Visningsindstillinger	Detaljer Remove from selection Add to selection South & Southeast Asian Collection ObjektnummerS1959-0041-001-0 TitelLady Beckoning To A Peacock BeskrivelseIn 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. ProduktionsstedIndia, Rajasthan Produktionsperiode18th C Genstand kategoriPainting MaterialeDye on Paper, Dye, Paper Mål H: 32.5 cm L: 21 cm KreditrammeDonated by the Indian Government

ObjektnummerS1959-0041-001-0

TitelLady Beckoning To A Peacock

BeskrivelseIn 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.

ProduktionsstedIndia, Rajasthan

Produktionsperiode18th C

Genstand kategoriPainting

MaterialeDye on Paper, Dye, Paper

Mål

H: 32.5 cm
L: 21 cm

KreditrammeDonated by the Indian Government

Detaljer