DEBARGHA BHATTACHARYYA
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19th Century • India
The Delhi Durbar of Akbar Shah II
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Portrait of Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy
Sergey Zaryanko's Portrait of Count Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy (1850) exemplifies the highest achievements of nineteenth-century Russian Academic Realism through its remarkable technical precision and psychological depth. The composition presents Tolstoy with quiet dignity, emphasizing his status as a distinguished artist and administrator while conveying an…
The Coup against Usurper Shah
The miniature depicts a lively battle scene framed by graceful panels of Persian calligraphy. This combination of text and image is a key feature of Persian manuscript painting. The composition is filled with horsemen fighting in a light, rocky landscape. The overlapping figures create a…
Self-Portrait of Rosalba Carriera
Rosalba Carriera’s Self Portrait, as traditional interpretation shows, is a deeply personal and tragic reflection of her old age blindness and suffering. Micheal Levey describes it as ‘Muse of Tragedy’. Carriera’s biography also supports her loss of closed ones, loss of her eyesight. But some…