ILLUSTRATING JAINA RELIGIOUS TEXTS AND STORIES

ILLUSTRATING JAINA RELIGIOUS TEXTS AND STORIES

  • 08 Sep
    2021

    Southasian Painting

    Robert J. Del Bontà

ILLUSTRATING JAINA RELIGIOUS TEXTS AND STORIES

Image: Śakra Lustrates Mahāvīra on Mount Meru from a Kalpa Sūtra and Kālakācāryakathā manuscript
Gujarat, Patan, VS 1557 / 1500 CE | Ink, opaque watercolour, and gold on paper
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, USA.

When Indian painting is taught, Jaina examples only appear at the beginning of the development of the art with one or two examples considered from the Kalpa Sūtra, a text concerning the line of the twenty-four Jinas. In fact, a vast array of titles was illustrated — fully religious or cosmological works and cautionary tales that would resonate with the laity. Jaina subjects were executed in a variety of styles over a long period of time.

This Lecture is part of the Postgraduate Southasian Painting Course “ARTS OF THE BOOK IN SOUTH ASIA”
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Duration -

September 8, 2021

Timing: 6:15 - 8:30 PM

Registrations Closed

Robert J. Del Bontà

Robert J. Del Bontà

Robert J. Del Bontà received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. He has taught and been a guest curator for many shows at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco since 1978. He has also curated major exhibitions for the Berkeley Art Museum, the Portland Art Museum, University of Michigan Museum of Art, and the New Orleans Museum of Art (one of which was exclusively on Jaina art); and was a major contributor to a Jaina exhibition for the Rubin Museum in New York City and elsewhere in the United States and Australia. He has published articles on a wide range of subjects including over thirty on Jaina material.