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RIP Jerry Losty, brilliantly rigorous scholar of Indian painting, inspirational writer on art, generous friend.
Scenes from a Mughal Garden-
Late Mughal Masterpieces from the Sir John Soane Album
Sir John Soane Museum
Blown away by the beauty of the 6thC Satavahana murals at the Bagh Caves- sadly fragmentary, but a glimpse into a lost golden age of Indian painting of which only these and Ajanta remain
Visnu reclining on his coiled serpent whose many-headed hoods shelter him like a parasol.Below stand the five Pandava brothers and Draupadi.
Sculpted panel from the South face of the Visnu temple at Deogad, c500 AD, one of the earliest Hindu stone temples to survive
@hemantsarin @SDMA @ssharadmohhan @dpanikkar @iamrana @JungNihang @PropitiousOn3O @DelhiHeritage @JAJafri @Yashaswini_Ch @GuzashtaLakhnau @tawairkh @zarafshan @gpsgoraya @kamlesm @Peachtreespeaks @MedhaviGandhi @BishtLokinder There is another version of this in the Museum of Islamic Art, Doha
Purkhu of Kangra
The Gods discuss their response to Taraka Asur with the sage Brihaspath
From the Skanda Purana
1780
Now in the Chandigarh Museum
2nd Generation after Nainsukh:
The Holy Family
Guler, 1810
Now in the Chandigarh Museum