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A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c22.6

A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c22.6

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English

c22.6

Pages 302, 306. Examples of mediaeval Hindu painting exist in Bengal and Orissa; e. g. portraits of two religious reformers at Gopivallabhapur in Midnapur District (*Arch. Survey of Mayūrabhanja*, vol. i, Introd., p. ciii, Fig. 55); wall-paintings at Haripur (ibid., text, p. 25); water-colour portrait of Chaitanya, ‘a rare specimen of art,’ preserved at Kunjaghāṭā Rājabātī near Murshīdābād (ibid., text, p. 35. This picture, painted between A. D. 1512 and 1533, is reproduced in colours as frontispiece to Dinesh Chandra Sen, *History of Bengali Language and Literature*, thick 8vo, 1911, published by the University of Calcutta. This learned work was received in October).