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  2. Ashta Nayika - Wikipedia

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    He is subjugated by her intense love and pleasing qualities. He is devoted and faithful to her [3] [6] In paintings, this nayika is depicted with a nayaka, who applies mahawar on her feet or a vermilion tilak (mark) on her forehead. [3] In Jayadeva's Gita Govinda as well as in the poem Kuru Yadunandana, Radha is portrayed as a Svadhinabhartruka.

  3. Pahari painting - Wikipedia

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    Radha-Krishna theme, from the Gita Govinda in Pahari style, Garhwal sub-school. Pahari painting (lit. ' a painting from the mountainous regions, pahar meaning a mountain in Hindi ') is an umbrella term used for a form of Indian painting, done mostly in miniature forms, originating from the lower Himalayan hill kingdoms of North India, during the early 17th to mid 19th century, notably Basohli ...

  4. Aṣṭasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra - Wikipedia

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    A 1307 Korean painting depicting Sadāprarudita rising in the air after learning from Dharmodgata. Chapter 30. Sadāprarudita — The Buddha teaches Subhūti that one should seek the Prajñāpāramitā just like the Bodhisattva Sadāprarudita ("Always Weeping").

  5. Manipuri dance - Wikipedia

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    The rhythmic depiction form of abhinaya[acting] is to show the ashtanayika [eight shades of a heroine] in every nayika, which are colored by the scenes of the season in which the "abhisarika" expresses her love for Krishna; so that a kuaasha abhisarika who dances in the foggy winter is very different to the varsha abhisarika who faces the ...

  6. The Women of Amphissa - Wikipedia

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    In the square where the scene takes place, the market is already set up with the many products it offers: oils, honey, eggs, meat, fish, among others Alma-Tadema offers the viewer the meeting of two exclusively female groups. Only one man appears in the painting: a merchant located in the shadows of his stall, at the left. [1]

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  8. Bhimbetka rock shelters - Wikipedia

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    Paintings on another rock show a peacock, a snake, a deer and the sun. On another rock, two elephants with tusks are painted. On another rock, two elephants with tusks are painted. Hunting scenes with hunters carrying bows, arrows , swords , and shields also find their place in the community of these pre-historic paintings.

  9. List of works by Jan van Eyck - Wikipedia

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    Van Eyck was the first major European artist to utilize oil painting. Though the use of oil paint preceded Van Eyck by many centuries, his virtuosic handling and manipulation of oil paint, use of multiple half-transparent layers of paint, glazes, wet-on-wet and other techniques was such that Giorgio Vasari started the myth that Van Eyck had ...