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BANI THANI🕉️
The original artwork(1750) is from the Kishangarh school of art, which is notable for its elongated style, with "arched eyebrows, lotus-like elongated eyes and pointed chin".
This was revered to be the ideal facial form.
idealized beauty?
painting rendered in Kishangarh style @Sothebys lot214
eyes made it distinct & that's unique of Kishangarh
Captain Mir Mansab Ali ,my Nana s/o Mir Alam Ali , commander and personal physician of Maharaja Yagnarayan Singh and then custodian of his adopted son Minor Sumair Singh later Maharaja of Princely State of Kishangarh Rajasthan. He migrated in 1947 with family #WorldRefugeeDay
A bony ascetic (?) preparing bhang, seated in a landscape, a parrot perched on his turban
Kishangarh c.1780. pic courtesy Bonhams #Art #History #Rajasthan @DalrympleWill @JAJafri @ssharadmohhan @dpanikkar @PunjabiRooh @MedhaviGandhi @KulbeliTweets @ResearchLife92 @PropitiousOn3
From @ClevelandArt 1739 rare painting by Savant Singh aka Nagari Das's #Padmuktavali. Ruler of #Kishangarh who gave up his throne, retired to #Brindaban with his beautiful consort, poetess #BaniThani aka Rasik Bihari to write poetry. 'BanThan' even today means impeccably dressed.
Savant singh aka Nagaridas & Banithani cruising on the Gundalao Lake, #Kishangarh #Rajasthan 17-18th century CE, Los angeles county museum of Art?
when we hear Rajasthan then see #Lake नौकाविहार? Irony? common perception is of dessert scarce water? but here? cool sortees, on boat