Artwork
Royal lovers watching rain clouds: The month of Bhadon, from a Barahmasa
Royal lovers watching rain clouds: The month of Bhadon, from a Barahmasa is an unspecified painting by the Mughal Painting artist Unknown. It dates from 1790 and is held in the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Barahmasa means Twelve Months, and this painting came from a series that depicts scenes associated with each month of the Hindu calendar.
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Barahmasa means Twelve Months, and this painting came from a series that depicts scenes associated with each month of the Hindu calendar.
Barahmasa means Twelve Months, and this painting came from a series that depicts scenes associated with each month of the Hindu calendar. Bhadon corresponds to a month straddling August and September. It is the middle of the monsoon season when rivers are swollen and continual rainstorms prevent travel and warfare. For this reason, men remain at home, and Bhadon is famed as a month for lovemaking.
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The oval format became popular after the 1760s with the expansion of British presence in India.
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