Through close encounters with a hundred carefully handpicked works, spanning nearly a thousand years, and ranging from Jain manuscripts and Pahari and Mughal miniatures to Company School paintings, B.N. Goswamy unlocks the many treasures that lie within them. As he narrates the stories behind each work, and deciphers the visual vocabulary and language of the painters, he also brings to life the cultural, social and political milieu in which they were created. An illuminating introductory essay precedes the section on the 101 paintings Lavishly illustrated, and combining deep erudition with great story-telling, this is a book of enduring value that will delight the reader and teach him new ways of seeing and appreciating art.

The Spirit of Indian Painting : Close Encounter with 101 Great Works, 1100-1900

B. N. Goswamy

Arts & Photography

Penguin books.India

One of the world's finest private collections of Indian 'miniature' paintings, a promised bequest to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, is represented by some 90 works of art created in workshops across India over the course of four centuries. The paintings, all reproduced in full color and accompanied by a detailed scholarly examination, span the period from before the rise of Islamic Mughal rule in northern India during the 1500s to the heyday of the British Raj in the late 19th century. The 'intimate worlds' evoked by these images vividly illustrate Hindu, Muslim, and Jain religious stories; offer visions of life at court; and explore the pleasures and pains of love. Essays include a statement from the collector and an introductory history of courtly painting on the Indian subcontinent, as well as discussions of the history of the collecting of Indian art, hierarchies of taste, and the relationship between artists and patrons.

Intimate Worlds: Indian Paintings from the Alvin O. Bellak Collection

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Darielle Mason

Antiques & Collectibles

Philadelphia Museum of Art

<p>First Edition, 1986, first printing, an almost like-new, oversized trade softcover commemorating The Festival of India 1985-1986 at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. Very slight rubbing to the cover, 285 pages, approx. 8.5" X 11.5" X .75". Also, included are 4 items of related interest: 1) 4-page brochure titled Essence of Indian Art announcing the show for August 9 - November 9, 1986, 2) Essence of Indian Art Programs guide, 3)1-page flying describing the event, and 4) an extensive news article from the San Francisco Chronicle about the show dated Friday, August 8, 1986.</p>

Essence of Indian Art

Asian Art Museum of San Francisco

L'Inde du tendre

Mazenod

Pahari Paintings of The Nala - Damayanti Theme

Publications Divison , Ministry of Information and Broadcasting

The paintings to which this volume serves as a catalogue belonged once to one or the other member of the Sarabhai family. But, compared to so many other distinguished collections which the family owned, and later gifted either to the Calico Museum of Textiles or the Sarabhai Foundation of textiles, pichhwais, manuscripts, Jain artifacts, and south Indian bronzes, among them they have remained little known till now.There is no dominant theme that runs through the collection, and paintings may not, by themselves, have been a dominant passion in the life of the Sarabhais, but the works they collected reflect great discrimination and aesthetic sensibility. What is more, in the collection there is remarkable breadth and even the casual viewer would be struck by the well-rounded view it offers of the broad historical development of Indian painting, There are works here that come from as early as the 11 th century and as late as the 19th; small Pala works on palm-leaf jostle here against some of the earliest works done on paper when that material came into use; Mughal works like those from some of the most celebrated series like the Hamza Nama or the Padshahnama stand close to dazzling folios from the so-called 'Palam' Bhagavata; the painter Chokha of Deogarh figures in the collection as much as the great Nainsukh of Guler does.

Indian Paintings in the Sarabhai Foundation

History & Criticism

Niyogi Books

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