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For #DoorsOfIndia a beautiful door dwar at city palace #Jaipur
Eye candy
Those two चबूतरा platform are typical part of Indian traditional #architecture #design similar are made in South Indian homes though don't know what they call it? द्वार Rose gate?
Les Roses: Rosa Villosa Terebenthina, 1817-24.
#painting by Henry Joseph Redouté (French)
Stipple & line engraving, with hand coloring
@ClevelandArt
#naturelovers #botany #Flowers #flowerlovers
China or Bengal Rose? 1817-24. Henry Joseph Redouté (French, 1766-1853), after Bessin (French), Pierre-Joseph Redouté. Color stipple with watercolor added by hand @ClevelandArt
Hailed as "Raphael of Flowers," Redouté was internationally reputed for his botanical illustrations
Ghatotkach fights with Abhimanyu, Scene from story of marriage of Abhimanyu & Vatsala, Folio from Mahabharata
circa 1850 Paithan Painting from Maharashtra @LACMA
beautifull folk tradition of storytelling or documenting epics via painting
@smithsonian another leaf of painting
Abhimanyu hunting in forest
ca. 1885 painting from Maharashtra @smithsonian
Snake charmer
19th century Painting from Patna Kalam/ School
@honolulumuseum
Honolulu Museum of Art, accession 14565
@NGVMelbourne #Holi festival on Rang Bhari Ekadashi, Vrindavan
1989; photo by Robyn BEECHE @NGVMelbourne
festival of colours
Bahu Begum
#Film #poster
What it tells?
Struggle of women, either in haveli of Nawab or in Kotha.
Purity chasity लज्जा इज्ज़त पर्दा etc all are enforced for women only.
#meenakumari ji
adding another glorification of bathing scene!
lady nayika after bath oiling hairs? standing on stool, earthen pots with accessories toiletries
17/18th century Painting said to be from Zenana/ Harem? @bodleianlibs
shringar was important part of life
what perfection in their brush is?
women visiting Yogis, Ascetic Sadhu etc. men of many community seems to gather, see head wears? attires? cited as Hindu religious scene? mughal style painting of 17/18th century at @bodleianlibs MS. Ouseley Add. 170 from an album of paintings