This magnificently illustrated book by India’s foremost art historian, reveals the marvels of Indian painting.
“A Secret Garden” explores the rich history of Indian painting, following its development from ancient rock art to contemporary styles influenced by Western concepts from the colonial era as well as Mughal, Tanjore, and Bengal School influences.
This series, which was supposed to consist of about 110 paintings depicting the intense love between King Nala and Princess Damayanti, was stopped short, leaving 47 beautiful paintings that are currently kept in the Amar Mahal Museum and Library in Jammu.
Exploring India’s rich manuscript traditions, “The Word is Sacred; Sacred is The Word: The Indian Manuscript Tradition” presents the country as a multicultural, heterogeneous society.
The authors of “Historic Textiles of India at the Calico Museum, Vol. V,” B.N. Goswamy and Kalyan Krishna, examine Indian clothing in North and Western India from the 18th to the mid-20th century.
This manuscript from Mysore, which focuses on the second part of the Bhagavata Purāna, is notable for its comprehensive examination of the sacred text with distinctive illustrations.
“Domains of Wonder” presents unpublished masterpieces from 1300 to 1900 from the San Diego Museum of Art’s Edwin Binney 3rd Collection of Indian art.
William Dalrymple calls B.N. Goswamy’s compilation “essential reading,” and the author earns high appreciation for it.
The exhibition catalogues works of art that exemplify Sikh ideas and gives information on their early evolution by the ten Gurus of history, spanning the 16th to the 19th century.
Upon its initial German publication, it was widely recognised as a masterpiece, showcasing fourteen Pahari Masters spanning three centuries and analysing their creations from different museums and collectors.
An academic biography of Nainsukh of Guler, a renowned Himachal Pradeshi painter from the 18th century, is given in this book.