Rediscovering A Lost School Of Epic Indian Painting
An exhibition shared between the Sackler Gallery in Washington and the Seattle Art Museum "reveals for the first time a virtually unknown school of monumental Hindu painting on paper that thrived from the 1720s to the mid-19th century. Not even specialized scholars had set eyes on the 60 works from the Marwar area, now part of the state of Rajasthan, that are preserved in the Mehrangarh Museum in the Fort of Jodhpur. The loan of important unpublished works of art by an Indian institution to a Western museum is a first in international museum relations." International Herald Tribune 11/29/08

Posted November 30, 2008 09:24 PM