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Ganesha, detail, Page of the Gita Govinda, India, Punjab hills, Kangra or Guler, 177580, opaque

The highly original form of the poem, which inspired many later imitations, intersperses the recitative stanzas with 24 eight-line songs. The religious drama of the worshiper's yearning for god is expressed through the idiom of human courtship and love. The Gītagovinda is the earliest-known poem dealing with the theme of the divine lovers, Rādhā and Krishna, and in it Rādhā is treated.


Gita Govinda Enchanting Paintings of An Epic Text from the Pahari School of Paintings Art Of

The Gita Govinda, a lyrical epic or epical lyric, by Shri Jayadeva, a Sanskrit poet of the last quarter of the twelfth century, is a poem with a unique and far different significance in entire Indian literature, before or after.Not merely a piece of writing, the Gita Govinda was an instrument that completely revolutionised, or rather re-vitalised, Vaishnavism, which encumbered by inner.


The Gita Govinda A Journey Into Realms Of Delight

Originally, the project of publishing the Gita Govinda paintings was taken up by the Lalit Kala Akademi in their programme. They agreed to publish an album with twelve reproductions in colour. Due to various reasons, it got delayed. Though this delay appeared very irksome at the moment, ultimately it proved to be a boon..


Gita Govinda Enchanting Paintings of An Epic Text from the Pahari School of Paintings

Some illustrated folios on Gita Govinda in slide form have been acquired from Los Angeles Country Museum of Art, U.S.A. The IGNCA has also photo-documented Gita Govinda paintings in phad style by Pradeep Mukherjee. The Gita Govinda collection in the IGNCA represents the schools of Basholi, Kangra, Guler, Mewar Bikaner, Bundi, Udaipur, Jaipur.


Krishna and Radha Folio from the Second Guler Gita Govinda Series Indian paintings, India art

The Gujarat Gita Govinda paintings are amongst the earliest attempts by the artists in Gujarat to invent pictorial motifs in order to convey the literary implications of the verses. This paper, therefore, seeks to examine the visual representation of Radha through pictorial manifestations of the Gita Govinda painted in Gujarat in the late fifteenth century or early sixteenth century.


An Illustration to a Gita Govinda Series. Opaque pigment on paper heightened with gold, India

The lush foliage seen in this work perfectly reflects the rich metaphoric prose of Jayadeva's Gita Govinda, giving visual form to Krishna and Radha's passion.


Manuscript page. Literature. Illumination. K???a and the milkmaids, from the Gita Govinda of

ix, 125 pages : 25 x 32 cm. Jayadeva, active 12th century. Gītagovinda -- Illustrations. India -- Udaipur (Princely State).


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The earliest reported Gita Govinda paintings are from Mewar from around 1590-1600 A.D. Kenduli, a Birbhumi village in Bengal, has been identified as Jayadeva's birthplace, though Jayadeva himself alluded to Utkal as his land. He mentions and pays homage to his father and mother, Bhojadeva and Ramadevi. He also commemorates his wife Padmavati.


Hindu Cosmos Indian paintings, Mughal miniature paintings, Painting

Representation of Gīta-Govinda, classical Sanskrit lyric, by Jayadeva, 12th cent., in the Assamese painting; includes text in Sanskrit and Assamese; a study.


Gita Govinda Enchanting Paintings of An Epic Text from the Pahari School of Paintings in 2023

The Gujarat Gita Govinda paintings are amongst the earliest attempts by the artists in Gujarat to invent pictorial motifs in order to convey the literary implications of the verses. This paper, therefore, seeks to examine the visual representation of Radha through pictorial manifestations of the Gita Govinda painted in Gujarat in the late fifteenth century or early sixteenth century.


Kangra Gita Govinda Art Handmade Indian Miniature Krishna Radha Pahari Painting

jaur gita govinda, english, kapila vatsyayan, national museum of india


How Jayadeva’s ‘Gita Govinda’ Inspired The Indian Subcontinent At A Turbulent Time

A series of paintings from Rajasthan reproducing verses from the 12th century Sanskrit devotional poem, Gita Govinda ('Song of the Cowherd') by Jayadeva.Jayadeva's protagonists are the Hindu god Krishna, the eighth incarnation of Vishnu, and his lover, the mortal cowherdess (gopi) Radha. This is thought to be the first literary references to Radha in any Hindu text.


An Illustration to the Gita Govinda Krishna Surrounded by Gopis Lot Sotheby's Pichwai

The project attempts to study the stylistic tendencies of the various schools of Indian miniature painting in depicting the subject of Radha-Krishna's love-plays from Jayadeva's Geeta-Govinda.


Krishna with Radha and Gopi (Gita Govinda Series) Krishna, Painting, Miniature painting

Inscription: Inscribed on the reverse: - In black ink with four lines of Sanskrit text written in Devanagari script: Gita Govinda, part 1, stanza 46 (for an English translation, see Miller, Barbara Stoler, ed. and trans. Love Song of the Dark Lord: Jayadeva's Gitagovinda. UNESCO Collection of Representative Works, Indian Series. New York: Columbia University Press, 1977, p. 77).


Waiting for Her in "Love's Sacred Thicket". Suite Gita Govinda, Opaque watercolor and gold

The Gita Govinda paintings are remarkable for the delicacy and perfection with which they are rendered. Their fluent naturalism and mellow grace create a magical world that is imbued with an inner consciousness of the communion between nature and man at their most beautiful. As Ananda Coomaraswamy remarks, "This magic world is not unreal or.


Radha and Krishna in a Grove (Illustration to the Gita Govinda) Exotic India Art

Presenting some more Gita Govinda paintings attributed to Manaku of Guler, circa 1730 CE, housed in the Government Museum and Art Gallery, Chandigarh.Each p.

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