Krishna's Fifth and Sixth Avatars, page from a copy of the Gitagovinda of Jayaveda
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Details
- Artist
- Unknown artist
- Date
- Late 17th century
- Dimensions
- Image: 13.5 × 16.3 cm (5 5/16 × 6 3/8 in.); Border: 14.6 × 16.8 cm (5 3/4 × 6 5/8 in.); Paper: 16.6 × 19 cm (6 1/2 × 7 1/2 in.)
- Origin
- Deccan
- Holding institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Palette
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- Image provider
- wikimedia-commons
- License
- Public domain
- Credit
- Purchased with funds provided by Oriental Art
Art Genome Taxonomy
12 tags
Subject Matter
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Deities and Holy Figures Metadata · 99%
The catalog title identifies the subject as Krishna’s fifth and sixth avatars.
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Mythology and Religion Metadata · 97%
The work is a page from the Gitagovinda, a mythological and religious text centered on Krishna.
Visual Qualities
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Dense Composition Visual · 95%
The page contains two adjoining scenes filled with figures, weapons, ornaments, patterned garments, and decorative furnishings.
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Bright and Vivid Colors Visual · 96%
Strong fields of saturated blue, yellow, red, purple, and pink create vivid chromatic contrasts across the page.
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Patterns Visual · 96%
Repeated floral, dotted, and ornamental motifs appear on garments, upholstery, crowns, jewelry, and the throne.
Medium and Techniques
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Painting Both · 99%
The classification is Painting, and the image visibly shows hand-painted figurative scenes within a ruled manuscript-page border.
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Watercolor Metadata · 99%
The catalog specifies opaque watercolor and gold on paper.
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Manuscript Metadata · 99%
The title identifies the work as a page from a copy of the Gitagovinda; the image visibly presents a bordered manuscript page.
Time Periods
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17th Century Art Metadata · 99%
The catalog dates the work to the late seventeenth century, with date bounds of 1680–1690.
Geographic Regions
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Indian Art Metadata · 95%
The artist display identifies the work as from India, probably the Deccan, with Aurangabad indicated as a probable location.
Materials
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Gold Both · 95%
Gold is specified in the medium, and gold-colored ornament and highlights are visibly used on crowns, jewelry, throne details, and garments.
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Use of Paper Metadata · 99%
The catalog specifies paper as the support and provides separate dimensions for the paper page.
Source & rights
anonymous. https://www.artic.edu/artworks/13120
High-resolution sources
- Original image ↗ 3,000 × 2,570 · Wikimedia Commons · Availability not yet probed