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Item Number: 127954
Title: Magie dell'India : Dal Tempio alla Corte. Capolavori d'arte Indiana. The Magic of India : From temple to the court : Masterpieces of indian art
Author: Madaro, Adriano (et al)
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Description: Quinto di Treviso: Europrint, 2013. 35cm., hardcover, 309pp. prof. illus., most in color. Italian-English text. Exhibition held at Casa dei Carraresi, Treviso. From the website: After the four major exhibitions devoted to China and the extraordinary success of the exhibition dedicated to Tibet, Ca Carraresi is now the backdrop to masterpieces of art from the ancient Indian civilization. The exhibition aims to reconstruct the main stages of the Indian civilization - through architectural elements, miniatures, vintage photographs, objects of daily and ritual use, costumes, textiles, jewelry, together with statues and reliefs from important Italian museums and private collections - through the display of ancient and modern art works, from the second millennium BC at the time of Maharajas, placed in an appropriate scenic context that recreate the original environment. A special tour in two parts: "Art in Classical India" and "The Maharajas' India". Two poles, the Temple and the Court, out from the classic Western dualism between sacred and profane. The first part of the exhibition illustrates some fundamental issues of Indian culture and includes sculptures and reliefs in stone, bronze images and ritual objects from the religious realm, along with thumbnails of related subjects, covering a time span ranging from the 2nd Millennium BC until the 17th century. The first room is dedicated to the religions of India: Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism - the four native -, and the religion of the Persians, Christianity and Islam - the three imported -. Then, two rooms about the myths and great epics, telling the divine stories and, particularly, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. Exhibition goes on with the room dedicated to the relationship between India and Greece, which produced the special Gandhara art. The extraordinary richness of the Hindu pantheon covers the five rooms in honor of the gods of India: The Goddess, Shiva, Vishnu and his incarnations angel on earth, Krishna. The last three rooms focus on the representation of the human body, male and female, and erotic art. The world of opulent courts of the Maharajas, rich and eccentric kings who impacted the European imagination, is reconstructed in the second part of the exhibition, through the bright colors of the paintings and miniatures of time, and becomes tangible thanks to the sumptuous dresses, the splendid jewels, fine guns and valuables with a wide section of photographs from the late 19th century and the early 20th century, suggestive evidence of a past time. The last part is devoted to the relations between Italy and India, whose origins date back to Roman times. There were many travelers, adventurers and researchers who followed the "Path of the Indies": the Apostle Thomas, the great Marco Polo, Niccolo Manucci - who made his fortune as a physician in the court of the Moghul, and many others who went down in history. All of them were looking for an imagined India, full of wealth and amazing adventures, source of wisdom and spirituality, place of ascetic life and fine erotica. There were also those who did not ever traveled to India, as Emilio Salgari, yet knew how to fascinate whole generations of readers with pages of his novels.
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