‘An insight into British perceptions of India and its inhabitants’ The exhibit begins with an overview of the transition from Mughal miniature painting to mica painting in the late 18th and ...
is said to be a first-of-its-kind focusing specifically on mica paintings ‘An insight into British perceptions of India and its inhabitants’ The exhibit begins with an overview of the ...
"Casta" is Spanish for caste and these "casta paintings" are incredibly frank documents--unparalleled by anything in our time--of the race-based social hierarchy that existed in colonial Latin America ...