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#museumconsultant #blogger #educator Founder ‘The Museum Memories Project’ & Varnika Designs

Jan 29, 2020, 5 tweets

Happy Basant Panchami: in India it means ‘Basant’ or Spring is here. India has 6 seasons, each as beautiful as the other ♥️ Let’s celebrate it through our love for Nature as Draupadi and her attendants are in this miniature painting made 500 years

This #miniaturepainting is from ‘Razmnana’ commissioned by Abdur Rahim Khan-e-Khanan, able commander, #poet #advisor of #Mughal emperor #Akbar a #dyslexic he made it his mission for translation of many manuscripts into highly illustrated books in his ‘taswirkhana’painting atelier

The world’s best #artists #calligraphers were part of these elaborate projects. The ‘Razmnama’ is the Persian translation of the Mahabharata
This painting is from the @PiramalMuseum
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Read more on spring: varnikadesigns.wordpress.com/2019/02/10/spr…❤%EF%B8%8F-really/#

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