An Illustration to the Gita Govinda Krishna Surrounded by Gopis Lot Sotheby's Pichwai


Ganesha, detail, Page of the Gita Govinda, India, Punjab hills, Kangra or Guler, 177580, opaque

The Gujarat Gita Govinda paintings are amongst the earliest attempts by the artists in Gujarat to invent pictorial motifs in order to convey the literary implications of the verses. This paper, therefore, seeks to examine the visual representation of Radha through pictorial manifestations of the Gita Govinda painted in Gujarat in the late fifteenth century or early sixteenth century.


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The earliest illustrations of the Gita Govinda were painted in Gujarat about 1450. A series of the Gita Govinda paintings were painted in 1590 at Jaunpur, in eastern Uttar Pradesh, and are now in the Prince of Wales Museum, Bombay. Akbar was an enthusiast in the mystic poetry of Jayadeva. In 1615, during Akbar's reign, a manuscript of the Gita.


Gita Govinda Enchanting Paintings of An Epic Text from the Pahari School of Paintings

The Gujarat Gita Govinda paintings are amongst the earliest attempts by the artists in Gujarat to invent pictorial motifs in order to convey the literary implications of the verses. This paper, therefore, seeks to examine the visual representation of Radha through pictorial manifestations of the Gita Govinda painted in Gujarat in the late fifteenth century or early sixteenth century.


Hindu Cosmos Indian paintings, Mughal miniature paintings, Painting

A series of paintings from Rajasthan reproducing verses from the 12th century Sanskrit devotional poem, Gita Govinda ('Song of the Cowherd') by Jayadeva.Jayadeva's protagonists are the Hindu god Krishna, the eighth incarnation of Vishnu, and his lover, the mortal cowherdess (gopi) Radha. This is thought to be the first literary references to Radha in any Hindu text.


An Illustration to a Gita Govinda Series. Opaque pigment on paper heightened with gold, India

The earliest reported Gita Govinda paintings are from Mewar from around 1590-1600 A.D. Kenduli, a Birbhumi village in Bengal, has been identified as Jayadeva's birthplace, though Jayadeva himself alluded to Utkal as his land. He mentions and pays homage to his father and mother, Bhojadeva and Ramadevi. He also commemorates his wife Padmavati.


An Illustration to the Gita Govinda Krishna Surrounded by Gopis Lot Sotheby's Pichwai

Some illustrated folios on Gita Govinda in slide form have been acquired from Los Angeles Country Museum of Art, U.S.A. The IGNCA has also photo-documented Gita Govinda paintings in phad style by Pradeep Mukherjee. The Gita Govinda collection in the IGNCA represents the schools of Basholi, Kangra, Guler, Mewar Bikaner, Bundi, Udaipur, Jaipur.


Gita Govinda Krishna awaiting Radha Indian traditional paintings, Indian paintings, Indian

The lush foliage seen in this work perfectly reflects the rich metaphoric prose of Jayadeva's Gita Govinda, giving visual form to Krishna and Radha's passion.


Krishna and Radha Folio from the Second Guler Gita Govinda Series Indian paintings, India art

The Gita Govinda, a lyrical epic or epical lyric, by Shri Jayadeva, a Sanskrit poet of the last quarter of the twelfth century, is a poem with a unique and far different significance in entire Indian literature, before or after.Not merely a piece of writing, the Gita Govinda was an instrument that completely revolutionised, or rather re-vitalised, Vaishnavism, which encumbered by inner.


How Jayadeva’s ‘Gita Govinda’ Inspired The Indian Subcontinent At A Turbulent Time

ix, 125 pages : 25 x 32 cm. Jayadeva, active 12th century. Gītagovinda -- Illustrations. India -- Udaipur (Princely State).


Krishna with Radha and Gopi (Gita Govinda Series) Krishna, Painting, Miniature painting

Representation of Gīta-Govinda, classical Sanskrit lyric, by Jayadeva, 12th cent., in the Assamese painting; includes text in Sanskrit and Assamese; a study.


Radha and Krishna in a Grove (Illustration to the Gita Govinda) Exotic India Art

Presenting some more Gita Govinda paintings attributed to Manaku of Guler, circa 1730 CE, housed in the Government Museum and Art Gallery, Chandigarh.Each p.


Scene from Gita Govinda, 18th century Indian artist, South asian art, Krishna radha painting

Originally, the project of publishing the Gita Govinda paintings was taken up by the Lalit Kala Akademi in their programme. They agreed to publish an album with twelve reproductions in colour. Due to various reasons, it got delayed. Though this delay appeared very irksome at the moment, ultimately it proved to be a boon..


Sahibdin Krishna and Radha in a Bower Page From a Dispersed Gita Govinda India (Rajasthan

The Gita Govinda (Sanskrit: गीतगोविन्दम्) is a work composed by the 12th-century Hindu poet, Jayadeva.It describes the relationship between.


Gita Govinda Enchanting Paintings of An Epic Text from the Pahari School of Paintings in 2023

The highly original form of the poem, which inspired many later imitations, intersperses the recitative stanzas with 24 eight-line songs. The religious drama of the worshiper's yearning for god is expressed through the idiom of human courtship and love. The Gītagovinda is the earliest-known poem dealing with the theme of the divine lovers, Rādhā and Krishna, and in it Rādhā is treated.


Indic Nonpareil Indian traditional paintings, Folk art painting, Hindu art

The project attempts to study the stylistic tendencies of the various schools of Indian miniature painting in depicting the subject of Radha-Krishna's love-plays from Jayadeva's Geeta-Govinda.


Waiting for Her in "Love's Sacred Thicket". Suite Gita Govinda, Opaque watercolor and gold

The Gita Govinda paintings are remarkable for the delicacy and perfection with which they are rendered. Their fluent naturalism and mellow grace create a magical world that is imbued with an inner consciousness of the communion between nature and man at their most beautiful. As Ananda Coomaraswamy remarks, "This magic world is not unreal or.