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The Amar Mahal Palace is a palace in Jammu, in the Indian erstwhile Kingdom of Jammu and Kashmir, India.The palace has now been converted into a museum. Commissioned by Maharaja Amar Singh, a Dogra king, the palace was built in the nineteenth century by a French architect on the lines of a French Chateau.
The Chalukya dynasty and Rashtrakuta dynasty had their capitals in modern-day Karnataka and used Kannada and Sanskrit as court languages. Between 800 and 1200 CE, parts of Western Maharashtra, including the Konkan region, were ruled by different Shilahara houses based in North Konkan, South Konkan, and Kolhapur. [ 22 ]
The museum contains works of art collected by Maharaja Sir Sayajirao Gaekwad III during his numerous trips out of India. The major works of art in this museum are the paintings by European and Indian artists including a collection of the paintings of Raja Ravi Varma , who was specially commissioned by the then Maharaja of Baroda.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, USA: More than 1,600 artifacts [50] Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, Lyon, France: 1,500 artifacts [51] Art Museum of the University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee, USA: More than 1,400 artifacts [52] Museu Egipci de Barcelona , Barcelona, Spain: 1,100 artifacts
Mahar served in various armies over several centuries. The Maratha king Shivaji Maharaj recruited a number of them into his army in the 17th century due to their loyalty and bravery. [28] They served as guards in hill forts and as soldiers. [29] The Mahar along with the Koli and Marathas defended the fort of Purandar from Dilerkhan's Mughal ...
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, four mummies – the priestess Hortesnakht of Akhmim, [33] the lady Rer of Saqqara, [33] an unidentified man from the 4th or 3rd century BCE (known as "the mummy from Szombathely" after the location of the previous collection he was part of) [34] and a man from the 2nd century BCE (known as "the unwrapped mummy" as he was already unwrapped when the museum ...
The museum complex has twenty two buildings, each housing a unique exhibition. Among them are displays regarding Aurangzeb, based on his own firmans, on Maharana Pratap, the only Rajput to fight the Mughals and win; [2] Dara Shikoh, two exhibitions on the great Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, as well numerous exhibitions on women warriors, like Alyabhai Holkar, Tarabai of Maharashtra, Rani Kittur ...
A noted German art historian, Goetz had earlier been responsible for setting up the Baroda Museum. The Gallery is run and administered as a subordinate office to the Department of Culture, Government of India, and showcases the changing art forms through the passage of the last hundred and fifty years starting from about 1857 in the field of ...