A Heroine and Her Lover in a Pavilion: Page from a Dispersed Nayikabheda, ca. 1660–80, India (Madhya Pradesh, Malwa), Ink and opaque watercolor on paper, 8 1/2 x 6 3/16 in. (21.6 x 15.7 cm), Paintings, The extensive poetic Nayikabheda literature examines the nature of romantic interactions between idealized male (nayaka) and female (nayika) types. The related paintings translate this poetry into refined visual representations that in Malwa take on formal and iconic qualities
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