HA227: Indian Painting

Establishing a Foundation: Early Painting

17 September 2002

1a: Sanchi

1b: Bharhut

2a: Sarnath (Uttar Pradesh), India, standing Buddha figure, ca.475 A.D.

2b: Shiva Nataraja, Lord of the Dance, South India, 11^th c. A.D.

3a: View of Ajanta caves (Maharashtra), India, ca. late 5^th c.. A.D.

3b: Plan of site

4a: Cave 26, Buddha figure

4b: Cave 26, ceiling painting of dwarf

5a: Cave 17, shrine

5b: Cave 17, painted pillars

6a: Cave 17, Tale of Prince Vessantara, detail

6b: Detail, figure

7a: Cave 1, view of shrine

7b: Cave 1, Bodhisattva “Vajrapani” to right of shrine

8a: Cave 1, Bodhisattva “Padmapani” to left of shrine

8b: HOLD

9a: Bound manuscript, Nepal, 1775

9b: Pala dynasty manuscript cover with Bodhisattva Prajnaparamita, 11^th c.

10a: Detail of bodhisattva from Buddhist wall paintings from Sum-tsek, Alchi (Ladakh
region), Kashmir, India, mid-11^th c., A.D.

10b: Detail, bodhisattva

11a: Detail, worship scene with Amitayus Buddha

11b: Detail, face of figure

12a: Detail, Bodhisattva painted body

12b: Detail

13a: Meeting of the Shahi Chief of Kalaka, from (Jaina) Kalpasutra, West India,

ca.1430-40 *

13b: HOLD, Alchi

14a: God Indra Instructs the genie Harinaigameshin to Transfer Mahavira’s Embryo from
the Brahmani Devananda to Queen Trisahala , illustration from the Kalpasutra,
Northern Gujarat, ca.1432; opaque watercolor with gold on paper, 5-1/8” x 13”
(Philadelphia Museum of Art)

14b: detail

15a: God Kama shooting arrow at Krishna and Radha, Gita Govinda, 1525-70

15b: detail of Vasanta Vilasa (Beauty of Spring), Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India), 1451,
painting on cloth, approx. 434 x 9”

16a: Quran page, 14^th century Mamluk Egypt

16b: Banner, from Islamic Spain, 1212-50, parchment and silk

17a: Preparation of Food for the Sultan of Mandu (making “sharbat,”) from Nimat-nama *

(The Book of Delicacies of Nasir Shah), Mandu, Central India, 1500-1505

(approx. 9 x 5-1/2”)

17b: Loraka mourns death of his beloved Canda, killed by snakebite, from the
Chandayana of Dau’ud, 1500-1550*

18a: The Court of Gayumars, from Shah Tahmasp’s (Iran) Book of Kings (Shah Nama),
ca.1522-25 (“Houghton Shah Nama”) attributed to Sultan Muhammad; 342 x 231 mm.

18b: detail