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A chameleon, 1612. Ustad Mansur.

Ustad Mansur was a seventeenth-century Mughal painter renowned for his depictions of flora and fauna, particularly birds.

Merry Christmas! Here are some wonderful paintings by Goan artist Angelo Da Fonseca, displaying India's unique and syncretic cultural fabric.

Kashmiri

Punjabi

Hindi

Cultural values, a people’s ethos and their prejudices, are often not explicitly stated but rather carefully handed down each generation through ambiguous yet striking proverbs and idioms. These idioms and proverbs then best illustrate the story a language tells.

This weekend, let us talk about proverbs.
The genius of a people can be told from the proverbs, idioms and maxims they use in common parlance.

Happy Diwali!

More than 70 years ago on Diwali, a painter saw his daughter in a beautiful saree with a candle, her hand guarding its flame to prevent the wind from blowing it out.

One of our favourite finds is the Indian-style, Christian-themed paintings of Angelo da Fonseca (1902–1967). His mingling of cultures and aesthetics did not sit well with the Portuguese Colonial Government, and he was condemned and expelled from Goa.
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Or this scene from the last supper.