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A night scene of Shiva puja
Content Provider | The Heritage Lab |
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Organization | Cleveland Museum of Art |
Spatial Coverage | Lucknow Uttar Pradesh |
Temporal Coverage | Between Circa 1760 and Circa 1770 |
Description | Hindu women had been prominent members of Mughal harems since the time of Akbar, whose chief queen was a Hindu princess from the Kingdom of Amber (later renamed Jaipur) in present-day Rajasthan. Under golden stars and a crescent moon, this royal palace woman holds a flower garland to offer at a shrine to the Hindu god Shiva. The light of butter lamps casts a shadow behind her figure; experimentation with the depiction of shadows, typically absent in earlier Mughal painting, increased among artists during the 1700s. |
File Format | JPG / JPEG |
Access Restriction | Open |
Rights License | CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication |
Use Rights URL | http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed |
Subject Keyword | Cleveland Museum of Art Lucknow Moon Night Shiva Uttar Pradesh Woman Worship Mughal Miniature Painting |
Content Type | Image |
Resource Type | Painting |