Krishna Lifts Mount Govardhan, from a Bhagavata Purana
1686
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From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
1686
unspecified
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
You see a young boy with blue skin and four arms holding up a mountain like an umbrella. Below him, villagers and cows huddle together in the rain. In the corner, a god on a throne watches, his white elephant beside him. This painting tells a story from an old Hindu text. The boy is Krishna, and the mountain is his way of protecting his people from a flood sent by an angry god. The bright colors and flat shapes make the scene feel like a storybook. To see more art like this, look up central india, madhya pradesh, malwa.
