Page from a Ramayana Series: Rama, Sita, and Laksmana Talking to a Holy Man (Primary Title)
Unknown (Artist)
This painting is from a series depicting the adventures of Rama, the hero of the great Sanskrit epic the Ramayana. Followed by his faithful wife, Sita, and his loyal brother, Lakshmana, Rama approached a holy man, one of several ascetics he encounters when exiled for fourteen years in the forest. Typical of 19th-century painting from western Rajasthan’s Jaipur state, the toylike figures are rendered with an even, wiry line and inhabit a stylized landscape. Two diminutive palaces or towns appear on the horizon line, heightening the picture’s somewhat awkward feeling of spatial recession.
Gift of Mr. George P. Bickford
Image released via Creative Commons CC-BY-NC
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