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Feb 08, 2021

Akashvani Names Music Festival after Pandit Bhimsen Joshi

The prestigious Akashvani Music Festival has been renamed after Bharat Ratna Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar announced.
He made this announcement at a Pandit Bhimsen Joshi Centenary Commemorative function organized in Pune.

Feb 04, 2021

Painting Looted by Nazis to be Returned to Jewish Heirs

A commission in Germany has ruled that a painting by expressionist Erich Heckel that is in a German art museum was likely unlawfully obtained under the Nazis and should be returned to the heirs of a Jewish historian who once owned it.
Heckel's Geschwister or Siblings was owned by Jewish historian Max Fischer until 1934, the year before he fled Germany to avoid Nazi persecution, according to Baden-Wuerttembergs state commission on Nazi-looted art.
The 1913 oil painting ended up back with Heckel, and the artist donated it to the Kunsthalle Karlsruhe museum in 1967.
The state commission said it could not be determined when and under which circumstances Heckel came into possession of the piece sometime between January 1934 and January 1944.

Jan 31, 2021

Stunning Eagle Sculpture Uncovered at Sacred Aztec Temple in Mexico

A striking 600-year-old Aztec sculpture depicting a golden eagle has been uncovered in an ancient temple in Mexico, archaeologists with Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History.
The eagle, which measures 41.7 inches by 27.6 inches (106 by 70 centimeters), is the largest bas-relief sculpture ever found at the temple.
The eagle was carved into the floor of a structure at the foot of Temple Mayor — the iconic pyramid-shaped temple that was built at the heart of the ancient Aztec capital city of Tenochtitlán and is now in modern-day Mexico City.
Artists created the bas-relief, a type of sculpture with raised images carved out of a stone background, in the mid-15th century during the reign of Moctezuma I.

ASI Unearths 10th Century Temple During Excavation in Bhubaneswar

The Archaeological Survey of India has unearthed a stone structure suspected to be the floor of a 10th century temple during excavation near the 11th century Lingaraj temple in Bhubaneswar.
ASI officials said that while carrying out scientific cleaning of the two acre land adjacent to the 11th century Suka-Sari temple complex, they found the floor of the temple as well as a portion of wall containing beautifully engraved statues of danseuses of the temple that was earlier buried under the campus of a demolished Sanskrit college in Bhubaneswar. A base (Shakti) of Shivling has also been found during digging at the site.
As per reports, many ancient structures around the vicinity of Lingaraj temple are believed to have been damaged during the demolition drive carried out by the Odisha government for renovation of the old town area under Ekamra Kshetra Project.

Jan 23, 2021

Motifs Inspired by Dravidian Temple Architecture Feature in this Series of Artworks

Gandaberunda, the mythical two-headed bird, often seen as one of Lord Vishnu's many incarnations in Hindu mythology, lies on a circular board of thick brown paper intricately etched out using a black pen.
At first glance, a satisfying network of patterns is all one sees. But the motif also opens doors to history; especially that of the temple structures seen in Tamil Nadu. The gandaberunda is one of the many creatures that feature in artist and architect Mathew Samuel's Divine Fauna, a 12-part series of sketches inspired from temple reliefs, manifested as motifs on circular boards.
Hailing from Coimbatore and based out of Chennai, Matthew's interest in temple architecture is the starting point of this personal project that came to fruition during the pandemic-led lockdowns.

Jan 22, 2021

Sixteenth Century Copy of 'Salvator Mundi' Recovered

The Italian Police recovered a sixteenth century copy of 'Salvator Mundi'. Salvator Mundi is the world most expensive painting of Leonardo da Vinci.
Salvator Mundi is a painting by the Italian renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci. The painting depicts Jesus in Renaissance dress making the sign of cross with his right hand. Also, he holds a transparent crystal orb in his left hand in the painting. The painting represents "Celestial Sphere" of the heavens. There are twenty other variations of the same work by the students of Leonardo da Vinci. However, the original painting was created by the legend himself.
The Salvator Mundi is one of the few of the twenty-known works of Leonardo.
Salvator Mundi is the most expensive painting in the world. The painting was sold at 450 million USD in 2017. It was sold to Saudi Prince Badr bin Abdullah. He is the current Minister of Culture of Saudi Arabia. Since then, the painting holds the place of the most expensive painting of the world till date.

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