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Mouth watering?
Tempted I asked how much Rs? The cost?
400/kg was blunt reply
Suddenly grapes tasted sour.
Temptation vanished.
Pocket seems empty
Did not buy
Could have taken 100gms
Fruit shop at Bhati basti
Port Blair
Mysteries, folklores, stories is all that remain with us.
much of traditional knowledge of Architecture-construction methods of forts/palaces/havelis/temples faded in past.
but we can preserve in documentation & memory?
story of valour, music & dance i can hear reverberating
Temple, in Fort of Rotas, Bahar
Plate 11 from first set of Thomas Daniell's 'Oriental Scenery.'
Rohtasgarh? Bihar?
Its porch lin 1800 served Thomas Daniell as a model for his design for a monument to Warren Hastings in Melchet Park in Wiltshire
beautifull painting @britishlibrary
Ashoka Tree
flower
medicinal properties
when it flowers? any story you remember?
company painting
#Kalamkari inspired wall hanging( as it is titled)
1610-40 (2.75mtr) Brooklyn Museum @brooklynmuseum
notice subject-painting dyed-are European so called gentlemen?
WhiteMughals?
Atusa or Atossa was Queen of the Persian Achaemenid Empire, the daughter of Cyrus, the Great and a half-sister of Cambyses II.
She later married Darius the Great and gave birth to Xerxes the Great
just found this- different picture from present scene?
@britishmuseum @ssharadmohhan @DalrympleWill @hemantsarin @IndiaArtHistory @chaarulataa @imgarv786 @ArtGalleryofNSW @metmuseum @ChristiesInc @walters_museum @statuesofindia @V_and_A @britishlibrary @LACMA in contrast to above painting of Ascetic-Yogi, here all features of beauty were added by painter to depict a Yogini
may be if she was any royal? then painter do enhance it?
Portrait of Yogini, c. 1750-1760, watercolor on paper, Honolulu Museum of Art accession 10687.1
via wiki
Albumen print by Richard Banner Oakeley of apsara (celestial nymph) at Halebid, Karnataka
Ancient Dwarasamudra, town in Hassan district, was once capital of Hoysala dynasty, which flourished from about 1100-1350 AD. Invasions by Delhi Sultanate in 14th century led to its decline
तुम आशा विश्वास हमारे हो
तुम धरती आकाश हमारे हो
भगवान ईश्वर
मनमन्दिर में स्थापित
Beautiful darshan
Sculpture chola bronze
Identify?