"Bhagavata Purana" series: Krishna and Balarama Studying with the Brahman Sandipani / Artist Unknown, India, Uttar Pradesh, Chaurapancasika Style
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- Accession Number
- 1983/2.104
- Title
- "Bhagavata Purana" series: Krishna and Balarama Studying with the Brahman Sandipani
- Artist Nationality
- Indian
- Medium and Support
- ink and opaque watercolor on paper
- Object Creation Date
- 1525-1550
- Object Creation Place
- Asia (continent)
- India (nation)
- Delhi (union territory)
- Delhi-Agra Region
- Creation Place 1
- Asia (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- India (nation)
- Creation Place 3
- Delhi (union territory)
- Creation Place 4
- Delhi-Agra Region
- Style/Group/Movement
- Chaurapancasika/pre-Mughal
- Inscription
- Inscriptions on painting identify each character and probably tell story.
- Dimensions
- 16.5 cm x 23 cm (6 1/2 in. x 9 1/16 in.)
- Century
- 16th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Painting
- Primary Object Type
- narrative painting
- Secondary Object Classification
- Painting
- Secondary Object Type
- study
- Physical Description
- Krishna, in blue, and Balarama are portrayed in identical poses and wearing peacock-feather headdresses. The paunchy bearded figure at right is their mentor, Sandipani. Two other, older students appear at left. They are seated, approximately equidistantly spaced, in an architectural structure that organizes the space.
- Subject Matter
- The Bhagavata Purana is one of the major sources of tales about Krishna, a human incarnation of Vishnu. In this scene, from one of the earliest extant illuminated manuscripts of the tale, Krishna and his brother Balarama are shown as schoolboys at their lessons.
- Stylistically, this work represents an important moment in the history of north Indian painting. Its antecedents can be found in the Jain Kalpasutra folios of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries: the composition is still compartmentalized into units of pure, bold colors that silhouette the gestures of the figures, but here the convention of the extended “further eye” has been abandoned for a profile view. In turn, the conventions developed by this time would become the basis for much later Rajput painting.
- Secondary Keywords
- associated concepts
- building divisions
- components
- components and systems
- components by specific context
- information artifacts
- information artifacts by physical form
- information forms
- objects we use
- people
- people (agents)
- people and culture
- people by state or condition
- reading and writing spaces
- religions
- religions and religious concepts
- rooms and spaces
- rooms and spaces by function
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- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 1265 x 915
- File Size
- 130 KB
- Record
- 1983/2.104
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""Bhagavata Purana" series: Krishna and Balarama Studying with the Brahman Sandipani; Artist Unknown, India, Uttar Pradesh, Chaurapancasika Style." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1983-sl-2.104/1983_2.104.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed March 29, 2024.