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The life of the Buddha has been a great source of perennial inspiration to scholars, artists and poets since the early times. Many events from the life of the Buddha have inspired some of the greatest relief compositions in Indian art, which have been depicted in sculptures and monuments.
Tracing the beginning of narrative compositions in relief’s delineating the life of the Buddha, the book analyses the sculptural depictions of events of the Buddha’s ...
Located in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, Lalbhai Dalpatbhai Museum today figures among the finest museums of Indian art and coinages in the country. Holding in its collections some of the invaluable specimens Indian sculpture, bronzes, manuscripts, paintings, ancient and contemporary coins, and bead works, it is an achievement of art connoisseurship and munificence of a few Gujarati individuals, mostly from an industrialist family and inspired by a Jaina Acharya. Ever ...
The Volume II takes up the story further, to cover the bulk of remaining schools of paintings beginning with Rajasthani and followed by Central Indian (Malwa, Orccha, Datia) and Mughal schools, which naturally formed self-contained chapters. Mehta had an eye for portraits which offered the opportunity to write on Indian artists' competence in the genre of portraiture, and delve into the intricacies of dynastic histories. Paintings based on srngara literature in ...
The world famous collection of Indian miniature paintings assembled by Nanalal Chamanlal Mehta represents most of the schools and wide range of themes from 16th to 19th centuries. In the present Volume the author has covered illustrated Jaina Manuscript paintings which are published for the first time along with the early Gita Govinda illustrated folios. The Chaurapanchasika paintings based on the 11th century poet, Bilhana's 50 verses, are the piece de ...
Pt. 1. Art manifestations under the colonial impact.; Pt. 2. Art manifestations under the naturalism.; Pt. 3. Manifestations of early modernity.
These essays are a culmination of zealous research, field work and post graduate teaching conducted zestfully for years by now retired Professor of art history, Ratan Parimoo, who is also a distinguished practicing painter. Having studied Stella Kramrisch and keenly analysed Ananda Coomaraswamy, Parimoo has also kept abreast with the current trends in international Art History. Kramrisch's thinking was formulated under the influence of the Vienna school of Art ...
A study of the historical circumstances and religious thoughts which moulded the artistic forms of Ajanta in relation to contemporaneous developments.