[INDOLOGY] Fwd: Help on mystery painting of Ramayana (?) episode

[Artur Karp]

Same here,

Artur

2015-08-24 11:04 GMT+02:00 Stella Sandahl <ssandahl at sympatico.ca>:

> I didn't get the pictures either, just two empty spaces.
> Stella
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> On Aug 24, 2015, at 2:59 AM, Valerie Roebuck <vjroebuck at btinternet.com>
> wrote:
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> The picture is missing from the email as I received it.
>
> Valerie J Roebuck
> Manchester, UK
>
> On 24 Aug 2015, at 01:00, Robert Goldman <rpg at berkeley.edu> wrote:
>
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> I am forwarding a message posted on RISA-L by Professor Lutgendorf of the
> University of Iowa concerning a painting that is expected to be part of an
> upcoming exhibit on the Rāmāyaṇa at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco,
> an exhibit with which I too am involved.  We would be most grateful to any
> one who can shed light on the scene depicted in the painting.
>
> Best.
> Dr. R. P.  Goldman
> Catherine and William L. Magistretti Distinguished Professor in South and
> Southeast Asian Studies
> Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies MC # 2540
> The University of California at Berkeley
> Berkeley, CA 94720-2540
> Tel: 510-642-4089
> Fax: 510-642-2409
>
>
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> *From: *"Lutgendorf, Philip A" <philip-lutgendorf at uiowa.edu>
> *Subject: **Help on mystery painting of Ramayana (?) episode*
> *Date: *August 23, 2015 at 4:50:25 PM PDT
> *To: *RISA-L <risa-l at lists.sandiego.edu>
> *Cc: *Forrest McGill <fmcgill at asianart.org>, Bob Goldman <
> rpg at calmail.berkeley.edu>
>
>
> Dear RISA colleagues,
>
> The painting below is presently owned by the Brooklyn Museum and
> attributed to the court of Mandi during the period of Raja Sidh Sen or
> Raja Shamser Sen. It shows a blue-clad warrior prince (who might be Rama,
> without bush skin, or Lakshmana) firing an arrow upward while (apparently)
> gazing at the reflection of his target in a shallow bowl of water — perhaps
> a sort of skill-test, like that undertaken by Arjuna at Draupadi’s
> svayamvara. The figures to the right appear to be Vibhishana and Hanuman,
> with a female face looking out from behind the former; the figure to the
> left is clearly Ravana, complete with a donkey’s head as his tenth head (as
> is often found in paintings), who is bleeding from the stumps of three of
> his hands—as if the battle between him and Rama/Lakshmana had been
> interrupted by the reverse-shot episode.
>
> I know of no literary or oral source for this incident. Does anyone? The
> painting is to be used in an upcoming exhibit and any assistance in
> positively identifying its subject would be gratefully acknowledged.
>
> Best,
>
> Philip Lutgendorf
>
>
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