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- Publisher
- Brill
- Copyright
- Copyright © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
- eISSN
- 2543-1749
- DOI
- 10.3868/25431749-04801009
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Abstract
John Brockington Paintings of the Rāma story form a significant proportion of examples of Indian miniature painting, although examples are not as frequent as paintings of Krsna in manuscripts of the many varied texts on his life . . . or in sets of paintings; they also form a rather more coherent whole, being based either on the Vālmīki Rāmāyana or on one of the many versions of the Rāma story that spring from it. The role of sculpture and paintings is crucial to the transmission and development of the narrative, since at many periods visual evidence for the popularity of the Rāma story preceded the earliest extant verbal text by a significant span of time; equally important is the recognition that visual representations presuppose a verbal text of which the viewer has at least some knowledge, even if the artist modifies it in some way. With these considerations in mind, I here discuss Indian miniature paintings of the Rāma story, including some examples from the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam collection. Such miniature paintings take several forms: the many manuscripts of the various Rāmāyanas include a limited number of illustrated manuscripts; there is a much larger number of sets or series
Journal
Aziatische Kunst – Brill
Published: Oct 24, 2018