ART: The Great Artists of India, 1100-1900

Dialectica, Abu’l Hasan, overpainted engraving by Marten des Vos, after Jan Sadeler © The Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, 2011

Museum Rietberg, Zurich on now till August 21, 2011

This content was published on April 4, 2011 - 13:31

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Celebrating the work of Indian painting over the last 800 years, the exhibition “The Way of the Masters – The Great Artists of India” is the result of years of intense research to source the works and identify more than 40 artists. Some 240 works give a comprehensive overview of the entire history of Indian painting.

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