Sacred Art & Iconography
Vyasa (Victoria and Albert Museum, IS.360-1961)
Kalighat-style painting, watercolour and tin alloy on cardboard, Kolkata, ca. 1890, Victoria and Albert Museum IS.360-1961
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A Kalighat-style painting in watercolour and tin alloy on cardboard, Kolkata, ca. 1890, showing the sage Vyasa with attendants, inscribed in Bengali with his name. Held today by the Victoria and Albert Museum under systemNumber O432495, accession IS.360-1961, catalogued under the Bonita Trust Indian Paintings Cataloguing Project.
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This source names Bengali directly: "1890, showing the sage Vyasa with attendants, inscribed in Bengali with his name."
This source names Kolkata directly: "and tin alloy on cardboard, Kolkata, ca."
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Vyasa, Figures The V and A's own structured content-person tagging and its translated Bengali inscription both independently name Vyasa as the sole subject of this Kalighat painting, corroborated by the Wikipedia record of his standing as sage and compiler of the Mahabharata and the Vedas.
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Vyasa (Wikipedia)
WikipediaDepicts: VyasaQuote, Depicts: Vyasa
Traditionally regarded as the author of the epic Mahabharata, Vyasa also plays a prominent role as a character.
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