Master Painters of India, Now in New York - NYTimes.com

Collection of Barbara and Eberhard Fischer, Museum Rietberg, Zurich‘Wonder of the Age’: Master Painters of India, 1100-1900 “The Lover Prepares to Depart,” from around 1710 and attributed to Golu of Nurpur, at the Metropolitan Museum.

” ‘Wonder of the Age’: Master Painters of India, 1100-1900,” newly opened at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is “in effect an epic and immersive progress report” on historians’ attempt to track and name Indian artists who worked hundreds of years ago, writes Roberta Smith in The New York Times.

“The show is a somewhat wild ride down one of the three longest and greatest rivers of world painting (the other two being Chinese and European). Sometimes, as in the opening gallery, you might almost be shooting rapids, so quickly do the elements of the Rajput vocabulary accrue from one Buddhist, Hindu or Jainist manuscript to the next.” Read the full article here.Master Painters of India, Now in New York - NYTimes.com