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Ever since the Stone Age, when elephants were represented by ancient petroglyphs and cave art, they have been portrayed in various forms of art, including pictures, sculptures, music, film, and even architecture. Elephant scalp worn by Demetrius I of Bactria (205–171 BC), founder of the Indo-Greek Kingdom, as a symbol of his conquest.
The Elephants Artist Salvador Dalí Year 1948 Medium Oil on canvas Movement Surrealism Dimensions 49 cm × 60 cm (19 in × 24 in) Location Private collection The Elephants is a 1948 painting by the Catalan surrealist artist Salvador Dalí. Background The elephant is a recurring theme in the works of Dalí, first appearing in his 1944 work Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a ...
A similar example from South India is from the late 16th century in Vijayanagar, which is also a combination of an elephant and a horse. It is difficult to ascertain the first Mughal painting of composite art, but several images have been found from the court of Akbar. These paintings were devoid of any colour and were done in pencil.
A life-sized statue of the elephant was erected in 1985 in St. Thomas, Ontario, to commemorate the centennial of the elephant's death. It is located on Talbot Street on the west side of the city. In 2006 the Jumbo statue was inducted into the North America Railway Hall of Fame in the category of "Railway Art Forms & Events" as having local ...
He is the "king of elephants" also serves as the main vehicle for the deity Indra. [1] It is also called 'abhra-Matanga', meaning "elephant of the clouds"; 'Naga-malla', meaning "the fighting elephant"; and 'Arkasodara', meaning "brother of the sun". [2] 'Abhramu' is the elephant wife of Airavata. Airavata is also the third son of Iravati.
The Pictish Beast (sometimes Pictish Dragon or Pictish Elephant) is an artistic representation of an animal, distinct to the early medieval culture of the Picts of Scotland. The great majority of surviving examples are on Pictish stones .
In 1996, when she was 22, Ruby was shipped to the Tulsa Zoo to mate with a male elephant named Allan (who still lives in Tulsa) and lived in Tulsa for about a year. When she became pregnant in 1997, she was returned to Phoenix. Another female Asian elephant, Indu, was loaned from the Houston Zoo to be Ruby's birthing companion.
16–17th century copy of Qian Xuan (d. 1301). The arhat is in red, Manjushri at right.. Washing the Elephant (Chinese: 扫象图; pinyin: saoxiang, literally sweeping the elephant; [1] English variants: "sweeping", and "white" or "sacred" elephant) is a subject in Chinese Buddhist painting, showing a group of men washing a white elephant with brushes, under the supervision of the bodhisattva ...