Search Results for Bengal School

... the complex, particular visual thinking of court artists; and third, by comparing the strategies of Chotu and Rahim with the visual rhetoric of Bengal School painters to expand on colonial conceptions of past and present, of Western and non-Western, and of the affective power of images. These three approaches...

...Figure 27. S. N. Gangoly (1885–1908), A Study of a Bird , Bengal, early twentieth century. Watercolor and pastel on paper, 33.6 × 24.1 cm. Label text: “Calcutta / School of Art Work. / Class of Work: Nature Study, / Advanced / Time in School. 2½ years.” Photograph: © Victoria & Albert...

..., North Bengal, with Special Reference to the Koṭīvarṣa-Māhātmya in the Skandapurāṇa .” Indo-Iranian Journal 56 , no. 3/4 ( 2013 ): 294 – 324 . 31. Banerji, Eastern Indian School of Medieval Sculpture, pl. LVIII c ; Rahman, Mātṛkā , 81 , citra 34; Haque, Bengal Sculptures , 271–72...

... practices in India in the 1960s. In the early 1940s Varma, the ‘‘pastoral realism’’ of the Bengal School, and Swaminathan joined the Congress Socialist Party (CSP), the ‘‘hybrid mannerisms resulting from the imposition the left wing of the Congress Party, which was leading of concepts evolved...

... It also appears in summary in A Statistical Account of Bengal (1877). 18 Where Muṇḍeśvarī is mentioned briefly in the Government of Bengal's Public Works Department's A List of Ancient Monuments in Bengal (1896), it is described inaccurately as in good repair, and the reader is referred...

... intent for the project. Today the National Assembly is named for Fazlul Huq, who was often referred to as Sher-e-Bangla, or “Tiger of Bengal.” Huq was one of the earliest advocates of East Bengali self-determination. Before the 1947 Partition of India and Pakistan, Huq declared that when India...

... be a valuable asset for Nalanda are spread over a significantly larger region than subsequent research on this fascinating site. the area excavated, owned, and protected by the ASI. 2. Vegetation patterns indicate that along the line of M. B. Rajani is Assistant Professor in the School of Hu- temples 3...

... identity seems unjustly vague, but the British officer is likely Richard John Meade (1821–1894), who was posted to the Bengal Native Infantry. But even before him there were other visitors to Mahābodhi, such as Markham Kittoe (1808–1853). Cf. Allen, Buddha and the Sahibs , 157–58, 212 , et passim...

... Fig. 2 Fig. BALTIMORE, MARYLAND The Walters Art Museum Hiram W. Woodward, Jr., Curator of Asian Art Fig. 1. / Radha (16th century). India, West Bengal. Bronze: 15.2 cm. 54.2962. Gift of John and Berthe Ford, 2000 Fig. 2. / Tara (9th—loth century). Java. Gold and silver: 9.2 cm...

... Flower in honor of Dr. Stanislaw Czuma. 116 THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART 13. Artist unknown. A Family of Tartars. India. Punjab, probably Lahore, Company School. 1885. Painting; ink, watercolor, and gold on paper; 25.2 Â 33.7 cm. The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2011.137. Gift...

... in his discussion of these inscriptions, Maitreyanatha was the founder of the Yog,Tciira ("mind-only") school of Buddhism, and the other bodhisattva is called Arya Vasumitra, another well-known Buddhist teacher.72_The two vidyadharas are identified as Arya Sariputra and Arya...

...—or, as it was then known, Devagiri. 70 The preachers were expected to deliver sermons ( khuṭbah s) in the name of the Rasulid sultans, and the Shafiʿi school of Islamic jurisprudence mandated that such sermons be delivered from Friday mosques in towns that have a population of at least forty Muslim men. 71 Scholars...

... (the ‘‘influenced’’ object) is passive. In fact, eighteenth-century Mughal-style paintings from Luck- the artist of the ‘‘influenced’’ object responds to the ‘‘in- now and Murshı¯da¯ba¯d (in West Bengal), where a kind fluential’’ object when he chooses elements from it to of pastiche aesthetic came to the fore...

... : Aryan Books International , 1999 . Stone, Elizabeth Rosen . The Buddhist Art of Nagarjunakonda . Delhi : Motilal Banarsidass , 1994 . Stone, Elizabeth Rosen . “ Kanganhalli (Sannati) and the Amaravati School: Some Observations .” In Art, Icon, and Architecture in South Asia: Essays...

... . The Blue Annals . Edited and translated by George Roerich . 2 vols. Calcutta : Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal , 1949 . Hartmann, Catherine Anne . “ To See a Mountain: Writing, Place, and Vision in Tibetan Pilgrimage Litertaure .” PhD diss., Harvard University , 2020 . Henss, Michael...

... space, which is clearly articulated and tion, not uncommon for miniaturists from Murshidabad resolutely different from any in the works that we have (in Bengal), was unusual for a painter working in the discussed so far. Perspective lines, though skewed, are vicinity of Delhi. Compared...

..., they could have insinuated that sovereignty was not held solely by the mahārāṇā s, but that political power had to be distributed among various individuals spread across the region. Here Pika Ghosh's excellent documentation of the ways in which minstrels in Bengal today use illustrated scrolls while...

... of most of the region's settlements, conversion to rulers. Noteworthy military leaders such as `Izz al-Din of Islam was far from complete. The isolation of the settle- Nagaur, Nasir al-Din Aytemur of Uch, Muhammad ibn ments from each other, and from contiguous areas such as Bakhtiyar of Bengal,29...

.... Blochmann . Delhi : Low Price , 1927 . Abuʾl-Fazl ʿAllāmī . Āʾīn-i Akbarī , vol. 2 . Translated by Colonel H. S. Jarrett . Calcutta : Asiatic Society of Bengal , 1891 . Adamjee, Qamar . “ Artistic Agency in Painted Narratives: The Case of the Chandayan Manuscripts. ” In A Magic...