Tuesday 4 February 2020

Bhawani Das’s Great Indian Fruit Bat: a hybrid of Mughal and European styles


Bat man …
At first glance, this fruit bat depicted in delicate detail against a background of bare English watercolour paper might be a European natural history drawing. However, its creator, Bhawani Das, had originally been trained in the luminously coloured, exquisitely detailed and patterned p

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