The Marriage of Pradyumna and Rukmavati, page from a Bhagavata Purana
1532
unspecified
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
1532
unspecified
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
The Marriage of Pradyumna and Rukmavati, page from a Bhagavata Purana is a 1532 unspecified by Unknown, a Mughal Painting work, depicting Chariot, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
You see a bright, busy scene of a Hindu wedding—blue-skinned figures, a priest with a topknot, and a couple standing under a canopy. The groom, Pradyumna, appears three times: arriving, waiting, and marrying. This painting comes from a time before Mughal influence changed Indian art. The colors are bold and flat, with no shadows to make things look deep. The artist stacked the story in layers, like a comic strip. Look up more paintings of northern India to see how this style compares.
Like his father Krishna, Pradyumna appears blue in color. He is shown three times in this painting with his bride. The scene of his marriage is in the upper level where a Brahmin, a Hindu priest, to the right of the pole and wearing a white lower garment and looped topknot of hair, performs the ceremony. Their arrival at the ceremony is pictured below. The flattened spaces and bold variety of background colors are typical of a major strain of Indian paintings made before the time of the Mughal emperor Akbar, who encouraged stylistic changes derived from exposure to Persian and European art…
Pradyumna was the son of Krishna and an incarnation of the god of love.
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