Professor Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺さんのイラストまとめ

The bee and the lotus are an enduring metaphor for the conjugal bliss of lover with divine (or indeed human) beloved. Here, in this 20C pichvai from Rajasthan, Radha and Krishna the loving couple are surrounded by lotuses and bees.

@Zehra_Zaidi @MT4tk @maj_retd_fox @Charlie533080 Ahahaha - merry Christmas my lovelies!

@simon_schama

When I get home from holidays I shall do a late-medieval Afghan arts and culture thread. Right now I am weeping.

These are all by/attr. the great master Bihzad of Herat.

Back to Sambhar lake today. I've got until Monday to finish this chapter to stick to my schedule!

photos by Madhukar Bangalore, with bonus Mughal mallard ducks @mfaboston signifying love in union.

Sneak peek of one of my artworks for tomorrow’s keynote, “Something borrowed, something new”. I’m looking at images of performers (mainly courtesans) and instruments from the Mughal and Deccan courts, and this is one of them. She’s a little late, 1810, @britishmuseum

@RobJLow @AliANaqviPro

@nsaulakh I would have loved a handsome Sikh to come riding to my rescue!

@DisabilityStor1 This one of a painter I love, from James Skinner's Tashrih al-Aqwam, in @BLAsia_Africa

Ah, beloved Shahjahanabad, I am writing about you again.

Painting by Ghulam Ali Khan.