An Unknown Treasure in Rajasthan The Bundi Wall-Paintings /anglais - Hardcover

BEACH/LAUWAERT

9780500517383: An Unknown Treasure in Rajasthan The Bundi Wall-Paintings /anglais

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 050051738X ISBN 13: 9780500517383

Publisher: THAMES HUDSON, 2014

This unprecedented volume celebrates the survival of the wall-paintings at bundi by presenting a stunning photographic survey of these long-hidden treasures, most published for the first time, and including both abundant details and many scenes that cannot be seen by the naked eye the royal fort at bundi, an isolated town in the indian state of rajasthan, is home to elaborately decorated palaces that are among indias most beautiful buildings that several of the palaces have been completely closed to visitors until very recently has kept their painted walls hidden from public view, but it has also helped their preservation the paintings depict daily life at the bundi court from the early seventeenth to the late nineteenth centuries, as well as scenes from traditional literary and religious texts the illustrations together reveal the rich cultural interrelationships that gave these paintings their unique power and importance

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