Giradhara Ramayana: Composed in Gujarati by Giradhara, the Great Son of the Soil in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries AD
Nagar, Shanti Lal & Nagar, Tripta
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Book ID : 18088
ISBN-10 : 81-215-1030-9 / 8121510309
ISBN-13 : 978-81-215-1030-1 / 9788121510301
Place
of Publication :
Delhi
Year
of Publication :
2003
Edition :
Language : English
xxi, 495p., Index, 23 cm. (Ramayana in Regional Languages Series)
CONTENTS
DESCRIPTION
Indian miniature paintings have a rich and variegated tradition that ranges from the earlist known examples painted on slender palm leaf foliosin Buddhist manastriesto Company paintings. Glimpses from Kala Mandapa features miniature paintings from the Neotia Collection, Kolkata on display at the Kala Mandapa of Jnana Pravaha, Center for Cultural Studies at Varanasi, that include some remarkable examples representings prominent painting schools and styles of India: the plam leaves and wooden manuscript covers of the pala style (AD 800-1200) 16th century Tibetan Buddhist thangkas, paintings of the major Rajasthani schools, and Ramayana paintings and portraits of the phari style. It presents excellent reproductions of art masterpieces of great historical values such as a dated sketchbook of nevari thangka paintings (15th century), beautifully illustrated folios of the Devasano Pado Bhandara Kalpasutra and the SamgrahaniSutra, and the Ragamala and Amaru Sataka illustrations of the Malwa School.
