'Two Women', early 18th century Bikaner, Rajputana, India

This fascinating embrace is a visual representation of love being a force so binding that it's difficult to tell where one body starts and another ends!

Sharad Mohan شرد ਸ਼ਰਦ शरद শরদ Don't Panik Art Historian* 🇮🇳 Gopali Ghosh 🇬🇧🇮🇳 🇺🇦

Vasanta Ragini, Page from a Ragamala Series (Garland of Musical Modes)
India (Rajasthan, Amber)
Early 17th century
Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Remembering the legendary Dhrupad vocalist #UstadSayeeduddinDagar ji (20 Apr 1939 – 30 Jul 2017). 💐🙏🙏🙏

- Represented the 19th generation of the Dagar tradition

Pentti Sammallahti. Leon, Spain. 2006.

Pentti Sammallahti. Helsinki, 2010.

Pt. Rajan Mishra, who is no more, from around the time when I first heard him, with inseparable brother Sajan Mishra.

Raga Basant.

Dawn reddens in the wake of night, but the days of our lives return not. The wound of Spring lies deep in the heart —Li Po.
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From 1933. Saraswatibai Faterpekar. Raga Basant.
via @xcavatedshellac & PT
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Lily of the Water. Company school, late 18th century. Sotheby's.

Ragini Vasanta. Sub-imperial Mughal, 1630. Sotheby's.

Current mood.

A Prince Hawking (recto).

This c1590-1600 double-sided illustration from the De Luynes Album attributed to the #Mughal artist Paras will be on Sotheby's auction on April 24,2024, estimate £120,000-180,000.

Probably produced for a European patron.

William Dalrymple Don't Panik

On this the first day of the Kerala year, it is finally warm enough to sit outside. The day was marked but not celebrated: yet another death in the family, this time of one my junior. The cherry, meanwhile, is in riotous bloom while the magnolia beyond is already burying its own.

Mahāvidya Kamala. Rajasthan or Gujarat, 18th century. Christie's.

Prince Hawking. Jaipur, 1750. Sotheby's.

Thirty Six Views of the Empire State Building.

Thirty Six Views of the Empire State Building.

#panjimchronicles so delighted to view the newly displayed mid-20th-century paintings by Angela Trindade (read this: scroll.in/magazine/10596…) at the @Fundação Oriente in Fontainhas, especially this exceptionally lovely + luminous portrait 👌🏾

Temple of Hercules. Amman, Jordan. Josef Koudelka.