A close detail of the Ganesha portrait: the eye with its point of white light, set in folds of brown, orange and ochre paint laid on in flat strokes, the base of the trunk and the tusk’s jewelled band at the lower edge.

Room 02 · Devotional

Ganesha, the Eye

The same face, walked close: one eye, and the base of the trunk.

Hangs in Devotional, room 02 of 14: Older grammars — folk, ornament, and the painted god — kept alive by copying them well.

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