The sourced Wikipedia account of Kalighat painting, a style that developed around the Kali temple at Kalighat, Kolkata, in the mid-nineteenth century on mill-made paper, used here to corroborate the style's origin, technique and its early adoption of secular and satirical subject matter alongside its devotional images of Kali and other deities. It also reports that the V&A holds the world's largest Kalighat collection, 645 works.
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Citation
PublisherWikipedia
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalighat_painting
Source Typeencyclopedia
Assessment
Reliability Tier3
Tier three: a collaboratively edited reference article, used here only to corroborate the Kalighat style's general origin, technique and V&A collection scale, not for this specific object's own catalog facts. Cross-Tradition Connections
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Kali, Deities This source names Kali directly: "The sourced Wikipedia account of Kalighat painting, a style that developed around the Kali temple at Kalighat, Kolkata, in the mid-nineteenth century on mill-made paper, used here to corroborate the..."
Kali, Figures This source names Kali directly: "The sourced Wikipedia account of Kalighat painting, a style that developed around the Kali temple at Kalighat, Kolkata, in the mid-nineteenth century on mill-made paper, used here to corroborate the..."
This source names Kolkata directly: "around the Kali temple at Kalighat, Kolkata, in the mid-nineteenth century on mill-made paper, used here to corroborate the style's origin, technique and its early adoption of secular and satirical..."
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This source backs 11 claims across the atlas. As facts: 6 well-attested. As cited relationships: 4 holds. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Sources, 8 claims: 5 well-attested, 3 holds.
- Sacred Art & Iconography, 3 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 holds, 1 general references.
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