As the custom of building large temple complexes became more widespread, so did the production of images and other objects associated with ritual and worship.
Dated evidence for the stylistic evolution of western Indian manuscript painting
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
During this era, known as the Chidar, or „the later diffusion of the faith,“ Indian
Shimmering jewels in Pahari School paintings.
over time or the effect of polishing the painted surfaces, a common practice in Indian
Throughout the ages, public sculptures have served as didactic tools, offering moral, patriotic, and cultural instruction. Symbols of pride, they have proclaimed cities as tastemakers in civic and aesthetic matters.
Multnomah Tribe Hermon Atkins MacNeil Roman Bronze Works 1903; cast ca.1907 The Indian
Florence and Rome—with their internationally cosmopolitan environments—were favored by expatriate American sculptors.
Rogers 1853–54; carved 1859 Daphne Harriet Goodhue Hosmer 1853, carved 1854 Indian
This exhibition singles out two periods when the Buddhist Tibetan tradition drew from outside influences to develop new vocabularies of form. It includes five loans and eighteen objects drawn from department holdings.
Looking from the Indian perspective, the exhibition examines how esoteric imagery
The New York Dutch Room is a main chamber, or groote kaner in Dutch, and comes from a house built in 1751 for Daniel Pieter Winne, whose ancestors moved to Rensselaerswyck from Flanders via Curacao in 1643.
planks, and all sorts of timber, flour, peas, and furs, which they get from the Indians
Business papers, personal and family documents, and gallery accession cards for the art dealers Joseph, Imre, and Ernest Brummer, who were influential sellers to museums and private collections.
Greek glass, gold, jewelry, and terra-cotta Iron Mexican, Peruvian, African, and Indian
The Orient—including present-day Turkey, Greece, the Middle East, and North Africa—exerted its allure on the Western artist’s imagination centuries prior to the turn of the nineteenth century.
Study for „Portrait of an Indian“ Anne Louis Girodet-Trioson ca. 1807 Odalisque
Like Orientalist subjects in nineteenth-century painting, exoticism in the decorative arts and interior decoration was associated with fantasies of opulence and “barbaric splendour.”
Because of their purity of design, Islamic ceramics, Indian textiles, and Japanese
