CA&AofAIIS

AIIS Center for Art and Archaeology

[CA&AofAIIS @caaaiis]

#AIIS CA&A has launched a digital book (https://t.co/G9A3V7KEFb...) which reassembles the text and paintings of the fifth sub-book of the #Ramcaritmanas—the beloved #Sundarkand—with accompanying notes by Philip Lutgendorf, former AIIS President and a renowned scholar of Hindi.

[Virtual Museum @vmistweet]

View our latest collection of Lajja Gauri images on VMIS:
https://t.co/JamIoCGyBx... donated by Carol R. Bolon, this special collection offers an understanding of the forms and development of the goddess's striking iconography across India.
#lajjagauri #gauri #fertilitygoddess

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Simhavyala (lion headed composite fabulous animal) figures, Kailasanatha temple, Location:
Kanchipuram/Kanchi, Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu, India, ca 695-722 CE, Style: Tondainadu, Patron: Rajsimha/ Rajsimhavaraman, Granite and stucco, Photo: AIIS, Center for Art and Archaeology

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Just posted a photo https://t.co/1xduKz4Tbk

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@kamlesm @vmistweet This manuscript was painted in the Mughal ruler Akbar's atelier. Akbar got Hindu manuscripts translated in Persian and got them painted for his library.

[g katyan misra @kamlesm]

At the Well? & Farmer plowing field
from Manuscript Anwar-i-Suhaili, written by Hussain Ali Waiz, Persian version of Panchatantra
BHU, Bharat Kala Bhavan @vmistweet
from dress of lady it seems Haryana? West UP? can you guess region from Ox-bull breed?

[g katyan misra @kamlesm]

Lion's Court
Anwar-i-Suhaili, written by Hussain Ali Waiz, Persian version of Panchatantra
BHU, Bharat Kala Bhavan

Artist: Farrukh Chela via @vmistweet
law of jungle!

[g katyan misra @kamlesm]

king of jungle, Ox-Bull & others dare to drink water from same rivulet. that's point where Predators keep vigil to prey on thirsty comes?
opportunism
Anwar-i-Suhaili, written by Hussain Ali Waiz, Persian version of Panchtantra
Bharat Kala Bhavan BHU
1596 CE @vmistweet

[AIIS @AIISIndia]

ICYMI — Former #AIIS fellow Utathya Chattopadhyaya has been awarded a 2021 American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) fellowship. Congratulations Dr. Chattopadhyaya!

https://t.co/6MztyGE5Id

[AIIS @AIISIndia]

#FellowFriday! Don't miss an interview with former #AIIS fellow Vidya Dehejia by Smithsonian curator of South and Southeast Asian art, Debra Diamond held by the Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art! January 19! @FreerSackler

Details and Registration: https://t.co/C37YcqDWrS

[CAORC @caorc]

Congrats to @AIISIndia US Director Elise Auerbach for being featured in the @CSISIndiaChair newsletter! In this article she discusses initiatives like the @caaaiis virtual workshops on museum curation, which aimed to strengthen US- #India professional collaboration.

[CA&AofAIIS @caaaiis]

@googlearts 🤯

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Gopuram - Gate-house (Dravidian and early Indian in general) of Nataraja temple complex, Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu, 1275-1299, Cholamandala style. The temple complex was documented by the AIIS Center for Art and Archaeology during Jan-Feb 1967. View more on https://t.co/RGFeeRo0Fy

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Hariti, 100-299 CE, Skarah Dheri, Peshawar, Pakistan, Blue Schist, Chandigarh Museum, Photo: AIIS, Center for Art and Archaeology.

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Documented by AIISCA&A from Chandigarh Museum in 1981. View more objects from this collection at https://t.co/RGFeeRo0Fy

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#Taming of #Nalagiri, 100-299 CE, Peshawar, Pakistan, Blue Schist, #Chandigarh #Museum, Photo: AIIS, Center for Art and Archaeology #AIISCAA #India #peshawar #pakistan

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Check out the new collections uploaded on https://t.co/RGFeeRo0Fy The current photograph of Bodhisatwa Maitreya was documented from the Chandigarh Museum by AIIS CA&A in 1981. View more on #VMIS #Bodhisattva #Maitreya #ChandigarhMuseum #photo #AIISCAA

[Saskia Scheltjens @saschel]

This is one of the many reasons why we openly share the #rijksmuseum collection. Art objects are most powerful in a network https://t.co/dbZTsLc0av

[g katyan misra @kamlesm]

Sesasayi, Vishnu
Lord Vishnu SheshShayani
Indore, Central Museum Museum No: No.23/68
from Malaheda Mandsaur Madhya Pradesh, 1000-1099 CE
Plum sandstone Sculpture
photo:AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF INDIAN STUDIES @caaaiis
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From @caaaiis

Fellow Moumita Dhar talks about the inclusivity & diversity initiatives taken up at the National #Museum: cultural heritage sensitivity programs with school students, #accessibility audit, and #tactile installations.

https://t.co/B66y2hfToY