The Kingdom of Yama Distemper on cloth Nepal

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Description

The Kingdom of Yama
Distemper on cloth
32 by 79 in. (81.3 by 207 cm.)

The large fragmentary section from a monumental painting depicting a landscape featuring walled temple compounds with deities presiding within shrines, flower gardens with pools, deer parks, and bleak mountains silhouetted in the distance with correction centers and scenes of discomfort.

Literature

Hugo E. Kreijger, Kathmandu Valley Painting, The Jucker Collection, Boston, 1999, p. 102, no. 38.

Catalogue Note

For a nineteenth century painting employing western influenced perspective, depicting a view of the Kathmandu Valley, see Pal, 1978, pl. 164.