Queen Trisala Nursing the Newborn Mahavira: Folio from a Kalpasutra Manuscript

Queen Trisala Nursing the Newborn Mahavira: Folio from a Kalpasutra Manuscript

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

A nearly identical composition as the birth scene, this painting depicts Trisala supporting the feeding infant Mahavira, while above, in another narrative, the infant is being rocked in a swing cradle by two handmaids. In this series we witness the appearance of the use of crimson along with the ultramarine ground, an innovation of the fifteenth-century style.

Asian Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Queen Trisala Nursing the Newborn Mahavira: Folio from a Kalpasutra ManuscriptQueen Trisala Nursing the Newborn Mahavira: Folio from a Kalpasutra ManuscriptQueen Trisala Nursing the Newborn Mahavira: Folio from a Kalpasutra ManuscriptQueen Trisala Nursing the Newborn Mahavira: Folio from a Kalpasutra ManuscriptQueen Trisala Nursing the Newborn Mahavira: Folio from a Kalpasutra Manuscript

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