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and artists with disabilities.American museums and art galleries have been working to broaden their collections in the wake of the widespread cultural reckoning in 2020 over racism at all levels of U.S.society.
The @Sothebys auction was held at the Bellagio hotel in Las Vegas,
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of the Harivamsha into Persian so that non-Hindus would be able to read it. When India was a far more cosmopolitan entity in c.1590 with the world at its doors.
1.from the Harivamsa 'Krishna in combat with Indra'. Opaque watercolour and gold on paper. Mughal Empire, c.1590
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Emperor Akbar who commissioned a translation of the Harivamsha into Persian so that non-Hindus would be able to read it. Here Shiva destroys Andhaka' Opaque watercolour and gold on paper. Mughal Empire, c.1590.
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Detail from “Prince Manohar and Princess Madhumalati Exchange Rings and Bed Sheets and Spend the Night Together”, from Gulshan-i 'Ishq
(Rose Garden of Love)
c.1743
Possibly Deccan.
Courtesy - @philamuseum
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As #monsoon started in India presenting
TWO PAINTINGS DEPICTING IMPENDING RAIN STORMS FROM KANGRA SCHOOL, NORTH INDIA, CIRCA 1820 in the collection of @ChristiesInc
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-Lovers on a rooftop watching the storm clouds
Both paintings show the
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items of #clothing, #jewelry, #shoes and décor from leading brands such as #Cartier, Chaumet, #VanCleef & #Arpels, Boucheron and Ostertag. For shoes, she chose Salvatore #Ferragamo!
-Philip Alexius de László, portrait of Maharani Indira Devi, 1928.
📸courtesy: @ChristiesInc
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Attention..!!
Maharani Indira Devi of Cooch Behar is here draped in a diaphanous white chiffon #saree with delicate #gold work on the borders, the Maharani looks nothing less than a goddess, with the pallu of the saree draped like a halo around her head!
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1️⃣The story of Mata #Padmini is well known. Every Rajput worth his salt grew up learning about the glories of great Rawal #Ratansingh and Mata Padmini. What is not well known is how the great sacrifice of hers saved the #Rajputs from the Turkic occupation.
@Hiranyaa_
Dāsbodh, loosely meaning "advice to the disciple" in Marathi, is a 17th-century bhakti (devotion) and jnana (insight) spiritual text. It was orally narrated by the saint Samarth Ramdas to his disciple, Kalyan Swami.
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#Hanuman
anyone that person immediately died. Unfortunately, it fell on Aja’s wife Indumati and she died at the moment of their greatest pleasure.
Painting source - Raja Ravi Varma foundation