A Raja Receives Homage Outside the City: Page from a Dispersed Manuscript

A Raja Receives Homage Outside the City: Page from a Dispersed Manuscript

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This page from an unidentified Hindu chronicle of a king depicts a mountain city with typical multistoried hill architecture atop abstract mounds strewn with clumps of flowers. Outside the gates on the right is a Saivite shrine with a lingum covered by floral offerings to which a goat is led, probably for sacrifice. At the left, courtiers pay their respects to the king under a pavilion. The flat treatment of space; the thin beige, green, and blue coloring; and the influence of seventeenth-century Moghul painting are characteristic of this series.

Asian Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

A Raja Receives Homage Outside the City: Page from a Dispersed ManuscriptA Raja Receives Homage Outside the City: Page from a Dispersed ManuscriptA Raja Receives Homage Outside the City: Page from a Dispersed ManuscriptA Raja Receives Homage Outside the City: Page from a Dispersed ManuscriptA Raja Receives Homage Outside the City: Page from a Dispersed Manuscript

The Met's collection of Asian art—more than 35,000 objects, ranging in date from the third millennium B.C. to the twenty-first century—is one of the largest and most comprehensive in the world. Each of the many civilizations of Asia is represented by outstanding works, providing an unrivaled experience of the artistic traditions of nearly half the world.