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"tombstone": "Gunakali Ragini, c. 1750. Northwestern India, Rajasthan, Jaipur. Gum tempera and gold on paper; image: 23.6 x 15.6 cm (9 5/16 x 6 1/8 in.); overall: 30.5 x 22.9 cm (12 x 9 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Edward L. Whittemore Fund, 1954.261",
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"title": "Gunakali Ragini",
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"inscription_translation": "The verse associated with Gunakali Ragini, a wintertime raga, states that the heroine \u201csets mandara flowers in a golden jar and seated, plucks them, with her mind fixed on love\u2019s sport.\u201d",
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"title": "Rajput Painting",
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"title": "Dance of the Gods: Indian Art Inspired by Music",
"description": "Dance of the Gods: Indian Art Inspired by Music. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 24-December 8, 1996).",
"opening_date": "1996-09-24T04:00:00"
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"id": 665205,
"title": "Carpets and Canopies in Mughal India\u200b (Indian art rotation)",
"description": "Carpets and Canopies in Mughal India\u200b (Indian art rotation). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 22-September 8, 2024).",
"opening_date": "2024-03-22T04:00:00"
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"description": "Main gallery rotation (gallery 245). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (November 2, 2015-April 4, 2016).",
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"description": "(Heeramaneck Galleries, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)",
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"date": "?\u20131952",
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"did_you_know": "Sets of paintings by royal court artists, such as the Ragamala series from which this page came, were made for sale, rather than for the private collection of the king.",
"description": "A princess sits on a throne under a canopy. Her companion holds the royal fly whisk above her head. According to the verse at the top, she absentmindedly plucks flowers as she daydreams about lovemaking. Below, a woman holds an instrument, possibly referring to the musical compositions that were played for the viewers in accordance with the scene and mood of the verse. The two women kneel on a carpet, which the artist has tilted up to a vertical plane, so its pattern of stylized water lilies on a bold orange ground surrounded by a green border with undulating flowering vines can be fully seen.",
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"citation": "Ward, William. \"Three Indian Paintings.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 42, no. 1 (January 1955): 12\u201315.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 13; Reproduced: p. 14",
"url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25142007"
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"citation": "Lee, Sherman. \"The Decorative and the Super-Real: Two Rajasthani Miniatures.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 44, no. 8 October 1957): 180-183.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 181",
"url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25142231"
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 770",
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