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The Four Continents
Painting by Peter Paul Rubens, c 1615
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
4 continents paired with main rivers: Europe sits with river god of Danube, Asia with Ganges, America with the Rio de la Plata, Nile embraces the black beauty of Africa!
European's idea?

घनन-घनन घिर आये बदरा
घनघोर कारे छाये बदरा
धमक-धमक गूँजे बदरा के डंके चमक-चमक देखो बिजुरिया चमके मन धड़काये बदरवा,
बूँदों के बान चलाओ
मेघा छाये, बरखा लाये
Raag Megh malhar राग मेघ मल्हार 1825 AD Painting Alwar Museum
ताल मृदंग बाजत नाचत कन्हैया गोपियन संग ता थैया
Welcome rain

Bathsheba at Bath
ca. 1700 Painting by Giuseppe Bartolomeo Chiari (Italian) @metmuseum

King David gazes at her from palace balcony. David later sent Bathsheba’s husband Uriah into battle to be killed so that he might marry her. he seduced her & a child was born-but died

Time Saving Truth from Falsehood and Envy
how come?
Artist: François Lemoyne
Painting, Dated: 1737
Museum: Wallace Collection, London, UK

@britishmuseum Deianeira receiving poisoned tunic from Nessus
wounded centaur falling to ground & taking off his cloak, while naked young woman steps off his back & takes over cloak from him
after Peter Paul Rubens Engraving, 1650-1699 @britishmuseum

Abduction of Deianeira by Centaur Nessus, c1640, from workshop of Peter Paul Rubens
Niedersächsisches Landesmuseum Hannover, Germany
Heracles about to shoot his arrow into Nessus
Deianeira appears more comfortable with force of gravity
winged Cupid to make clear Nessus’ intention

@MuseeLouvre @britishmuseum Autumn (Deianeira) (1872), Painting by Gustave Moreau
Nessus still very much alive, and Deianeira apparently in a trance-like state. Heracles (hercules) may be lurking in dense wood around them, but for the moment not visible
J. Paul Getty Museum, wiki

@MuseeLouvre @britishmuseum centaur Nessus, naked, stepping into water; on right, Hercules, naked, helping his wife, Deianeira, to mount Nessus; at feet of Hercules, a club & bow;
1762 Etching & engraving
Print made by: Francesco Bartolozzi
After: Laurent Pécheux
@britishmuseum

Abduction of Deianeira (Dejanira) by Centaur Nessus
Hercules shoots an arrow at him
painting by Louis Jean Francois Lagrenee, 1755
@MuseeLouvre which is original?
#abduction is in every civilization, even in Mythology? its global phenomenon

@ChristiesInc from above painting, it is Indian Emerald Dove
#bird company school Painting 1775-78 from Lucknow? @ChristiesInc