The Ramayana in Relief: Narrative Art in Ancient and Early Medieval India With Daniel Ehnbom
The rich narrative traditions of Indian art in the last centuries BCE largely died out, but starting in the Gupta Period (4th-6th centuries CE) new narrative traditions emerged. Ramayana subjects are among the earliest examples of this revival, and became immensely popular in both the north and south of the subcontinent. This lecture examines these complex developments and offers some observations on their significance to their original viewers.
Daniel Ehnbom received his PhD from the University of Chicago in 1984 and is a former Instructor of Record for SAA’s Arts of Asia classes. He is the author of numerous books, articles and catalogue contrubutions on South Asian Art, including Indian Miniatures: The Ehrenfeld Collection (1985) and Realms of Earth and Sky: Indian Painting from the Fifteenth to the Nineteenth Century (Charlottesville: The Fralin Art Museum at the University of Virginia, 2014). He was with the Macmillan/Grove Dictionary of Art (now Oxford University Press, published 1996) from 1984, acting as South Asia Area Editor for Painting and Sculpture from 1988.
He is currently adjunct curator of South Asian art at the University of Virginia Art Museum, and was formerly Director of the UVA Center for South Asian Studies.
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