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Barahmasa (lit. "the twelve months") is a poetic genre popular in the Indian subcontinent [1] [2] [3] derived primarily from the Indian folk tradition. [4] It is usually themed around a woman longing for her absent lover or husband, describing her own emotional state against the backdrop of passing seasonal and ritual events.
In these painting each raga is personified by a colour, mood, a verse describing a story of a hero and heroine (nayaka and nayika), it also elucidates the season and the time of day and night in which a particular raga is to be sung; and finally most paintings also demarcate the specific Hindu deities attached with the raga, like Bhairava or ...
Painting of Akbar with falcon receiving Itimam Khan, while below a poor petitioner (self-portrait of the artist Keshavdas as an old man) is driven away by a royal guard, 1589 Keshavdas was a Sanadhya Brahman born in 1555 [ 1 ] probably near to Orchha at Tikamgarh . [ 2 ]
Jivya Soma Mashe (ISO: Jivyā Somā Mhāsē; 1934 - 15 May 2018) was an artist of the Maharashtra state in India, who popularised the Warli tribal art form. [1]Mashe was born in Dhamangaon village in Talasari taluka of Thane district (now Palghar district) of Maharashtra.
"Who is more beautiful, I or Padmavati?, Queen Nagamati asks to her new parrot, and it gives a displeasing reply..."; an illustrated manuscript of Padmavat, c. 1750. Malik Muhammad Jayasi (1477– 1542) was an Indian Sufi poet and pir. [1]
Charlotte Louise Marie Vaudeville was born in La Tronche, France in 1918. She graduated with a degree in classics in 1939, a diploma in Indian studies in 1942 and in Hindi in 1943 from the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales.
Bharat Mata is a work painted by the Indian painter Abanindranath Tagore in 1905. However, the painting was first painted by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay in the 1870s. The work depicts a saffron-clad woman, dressed like a sadhvi, holding a book, sheaves of paddy, a piece of white cloth, and a rudraksha garland (mala) in her four hands.
The Afrasiab murals, also called the Paintings of the Ambassadors, is a rare example of Sogdian art.It was discovered in 1965 when the local authorities decided to construct a road in the middle of Afrāsiāb mound, the old site of pre-Mongol Samarkand.