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Mother India at Metropolitan Museum Features Depictions of the Goddess in Indian Painting

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75th Anniversary of Indian Independence Lecture—Art and Independence

December 15, 2021

By John Guy

Explore the life and work of Indian artist Y. G. Srimati (1926–2007), who grew up in Chennai during the Indian independence movement of the 1940s.
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Indian Textiles: Trade and Production

October 1, 2003

By Marika Sardar

The popularity of Indian textiles is evidenced in the number of words that have made their way into English: calico, pajama, gingham, dungaree, chintz, and khaki.
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Elephant Soul, Indian Brush

June 14, 2024

By Navina Najat Haidar

Take a closer look at the Asian elephant through the eyes of Indian court painters
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Gold of the Indies

October 1, 2002

By Julie Jones

During the earliest years of European expansion onto the American continents, the search for gold was one of the driving factors in the exploration and colonization of the vast lands.
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Indian Block-Printed Textiles: Past and Present

November 15, 2016

By Yael Rosenfield

Associate Conservator Yael Rosenfield details two Islamic textile fragments in the exhibition Jerusalem 1000–1400: Every People Under Heaven and discusses India's lively textile-producing cottage industry.
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Indian Knoll (3000–2000 B.C.)

October 1, 2003

By Department of Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas

The burials [found in the Indian Knoll mound] were of individuals, not groups, and included men, women, children, and dogs. Many held gender-specific objects.
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Postmodernism: Recent Developments in Art in India

October 1, 2004

By Atteqa Ali

A few artists and art critics in India have begun to conceptualize their unique position in international contemporary art.
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Indian Skies: The Howard Hodgkin Collection of Indian Court Painting

February 6–June 9, 2024
Over the course of sixty years, British artist Howard Hodgkin (British, London 1932–2017 London) formed a collection of Indian paintings and drawings that is recognized as one of the finest of its kind. A highly regarded painter and printmaker, Hod…
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Twelve Jewels: Indian Diamonds in History and Myth

October 26, 2018

By Courtney A. Stewart

Senior Research Assistant Courtney Stewart shares the history and myth behind twelve jewels set with Indian diamonds, now on view in gallery 464.
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Pichhwai for the Festival of Cows

Date: late 18th century
Accession Number: 2003.177

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Illustrated manuscript of the Lotus Sutra (Miaofa lianhua jing), Volume 2

Unidentified artist (mid-14th century)

Date: ca. 1340
Accession Number: 1994.207

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Great Wisdom Sutra (Daihannya-kyō), one of the Chūsonji Sutras (Chūsonji-kyō)

Date: ca. 1175
Accession Number: 2002.447.1

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Surcoat (Jinbaori)

Unidentified artist

Date: late 18th–early 19th century
Accession Number: SL.23.2013.4.1b

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Section of the Flower Ornament Sutra (Kegon-kyō), known as the “Senpukuji Burned Sutra” (Senpukuji yakegyō)

Unidentified artist

Date: 12th century
Accession Number: 2024.412.1

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“Parable of the Medicinal Herbs” (Yakusōyu), Chapter 5 of the Lotus Sutra (Saddharma pundarika)

Unidentified artist

Date: 12th century
Accession Number: 65.216.2

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Section of The Amitabha Sutra

Unidentified Artist

Date: mid-13th century
Accession Number: 2019.420.1

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Nigatsudō Burned Sutra

Unidentified artist

Date: ca. 744
Accession Number: 1981.75

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a) Womb World Mandala; b) Diamond World Mandala (From the Mandalas of Both Worlds)

Matsubara Shôgetsu (Japanese, active ca. 1800)

Accession Number: SL.11.2009.5.1a–e

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Festival Banner Showing Krishna Rescuing and Marrying Rukmini

Date: ca. 1800
Accession Number: 59.92