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Инструменты Режимы отображения	Детали Remove from selection Add to selection CollectionSouth & Southeast Asian Collection Номер объектаS1959-0041-001-0 НазваниеLady Beckoning To A Peacock ОписаниеIn 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. Место изготовленияIndia, Rajasthan Период создания18th C НаименованиеPainting МатериалDye on Paper, Dye, Paper Размерность H: 32.5 cm L: 21 cm Кредитная линияDonated by the Indian Government

CollectionSouth & Southeast Asian Collection

Номер объектаS1959-0041-001-0

НазваниеLady Beckoning To A Peacock

ОписаниеIn 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.

Место изготовленияIndia, Rajasthan

Период создания18th C

НаименованиеPainting

МатериалDye on Paper, Dye, Paper

Размерность

H: 32.5 cm
L: 21 cm

Кредитная линияDonated by the Indian Government

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