Gita Govinda – India’s Great Love Story / Museum Rietberg, Zürich
In India, literature and imagery became fused in a unique fashion: series of miniature paintings, wrapped in bundles in cloth and carefully stored away in chests were extremely popular at the courts of Hindu princes between the 16th and 19th century. These extremely precious works of art, created with the finest brushes and rendered in costly pigments, including gold, recount some of India’s greatest tales. One of these stories is the Gita Govinda (short for Gitagovindakavyam), a poem that celebrates the love between a god and human girl. It was composed by the poet Jayadeva in Sanskrit at the end of the 12th century. Over the course of time, many artists have tried to render this tale in images, but none succeeded better in capturing the magical poetry, the emotional power, and the narrat...
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