Pathik 2002 Vol 42 Ank 01 02 03

SR No.: 535493
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Bhartiben Shelat, Subhash Bramhabhatt
Publisher: Mansingji Barad Smarak Trust
Publication Year: 2002
Total Pages: 202
Language: Gujarati
Classification: Magazine, India_Pathik, & India
File Size: 12 MB

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Pierre Patel's "An Italian Landscape”, is an excellent example of the Italianate French School. Georges Michel, one of the founders of the Barbizon School, is represented by his painting, Near Montmartrc. Of the other French masters, Scheffer, Paul Delaroche, Milliet, Isabey, Boulange, Charles Jacques, Gustava Courbet and Boudin deserve special mention.
The British School is well represented in the Baroda Gallery by such works as, "Judith with the head of Holoferncs", hy Sir Peter Lely. Although Van Dyck is not represented by originals, there are excellent copies of his works by Stone and others. Dobson, Reynolds, Turner, Lawrence, Boys, Varley, Firth, Henry Moore, George Henry, Freser, Linell and several other British masters are represented by original works.
Paintings of the Belgain, Austrian, Russian, and other European Schools have also been displayed in the Gallery.
A set of watercolour copics by Samuel West, from famous pictures and an original skctchbook by Romney, represent the modern style developments. Of the modern Western painters in India, the works of Nicholas and Svetoslav Rocrich, Magada Nachman, Elizabeth Brunner and Sass Brunner can be seen as characteristic examples.
In addition to the paintings, copies of some famous sculpture from Belgium, France, Great Britain, Italy and Japan are also shown. These include the "Children of the Wolf". by Sir George Frampton, "The three Graces', by Antonio Canova and "Wrestlers and Brabo", by Jef Lambcaus. Modern Indian Gallery
This comprises mainly of the works of modern Indian painters like Kanu Desai, Raval, Chavda, Raza, Fyzee Rahman, Chughtai, Bendre, Y.K. Shukla, Hebbar. Jamini Roy, Mali and other representative modern artists. Bakre, Dhanraj Bhagat and Phadke arc amongst the sculptors, represented in the galleries. European Art and Civilization Greek and Roman Art
This room mainly contains a very representative set of plaster casts and metal copies of Greck and Roman sculptures; terracotta, and metalwork in bronze, gold and silver. However, there are a few noteworthy original picces viz., a collection of Greek and Pro-Greek painted vases of 7th-6th centuries B.C. and an carly Corinthian bronze jug with the head of the goddess Aphrodite. .: Special mention may be made of the plaster copy of the famous bronze statue
of a charioteer at Delhi, the cast of the fricze from parthenon showing the sacrificial procession and the bronze copy of a thorn cxtractor- all belonging to the golden age of Greek art.
A miniature model in plaster of the famous Altar, crected at Paragamon by the Attalid kings, bronze copies of the statues of Gods from Pompili, a Roman copy of the Hellenistic painting by Aition, showing the wedding of Alexander the great; these are
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