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Sankhachur & Tulsi, Ramayan, Kalighat Painting, Kolkata, ca.1890 @V_and_A
Being pious wife पतिव्रता पुण्यम् she protected Shakhachur from all evils, once fight broke out between Shiv, Lord Narayan rescued in disguise of shakhachur-thereby breaking piousness of Tulsi, demons died

Abduction of the Daughters of Leucippus
#painting by Peter Paul Rubens, c.1618
at Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany
depicts mortal Castor & immortal Pollux abducting Phoebe & Hilaeira, daughters of Leucippus. Castor-horse-tamer wears armour, whilst Pollux -boxer is bare

The Rape of Proserpina, Painting by Hans von Aachen, 1587 AD at Brukenthal National Museum

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

Hercules and Omphale
Painting by François Lemoyne 1724 @MuseeLouvre
Greek mythology, Omphale; was queen of kingdom of Lydia.
Heracles, or Hercules, was, by command of Delphic Oracle Xenoclea, remanded as a slave to Omphale for the period of a year,

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