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THE Lemmy community for visual arts. Paintings, sculptures, photography, architecture are all welcome amongst others.

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  6. Posts must be fine arts and not furry drawings and fan art.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/54812946

Dancing Girl is a prehistoric bronze sculpture made in lost-wax casting about c. 2300–1751 BC in the Indus Valley Civilisation city of Mohenjo-daro (in modern-day Pakistan), which was one of the earliest cities. The statue is 10.5 centimetres (4.1 in) tall, and depicts a nude young woman or girl with stylized ornaments, standing in a confident, naturalistic pose. Dancing Girl is highly regarded as a work of art.

In 2016, a Pakistani barrister, Javed Iqbal Jaffery, petitioned the Lahore High Court for the return of the statue, claiming that it had been "taken from Pakistan 60 years ago on the request of the National Arts Council in Delhi but never returned". According to him, the Dancing Girl was to Pakistan what Da Vinci's Mona Lisa was to Europe. However, no public request to India has been made by the Pakistani government.

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The Sanskrit Mosques of Asirgarh and Burhanpur should be UNESCO world heritage sites.

They remain unique in the Islamic world, with Sanskrit verses carved directly into the mihrab of a mosque. They praise Allah, the agent of creation (सृष्टिकरतृ), in the manner of a classical Sanskrit prashasti.

They were erected by the Faruqis of Khandesh, perhaps the most intriguing and forgotten Sultans in India.

Notably, the Faruqis use of Sanskrit here was not an isolated case. In 1907, the historian Hira Lal recorded evidence of Sanskrit manuscripts, transcribed in Persian script, being passed down in Burhanpur’s Muslim families.

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Sam Dalrymple is one of my favourite historians despite a young career. Loved his debut book.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/54962961

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These are not photographs

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