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Updated: May 2, 2025
The sight and feeling of it fasten upon the mind and abide in the memory like a nightmare, like one of Piranesi's weirdest and most passion-haunted etchings for the Carceri.
As a result Krishna was portrayed in a number of highly conflicting roles as husband, rake, seducer, paramour and gallant. In one picture he is 'a gallant whose word cannot be trusted' and we see him in the act of delicately disengaging a lady's dress and gazing at her with passion-haunted eyes.
Just as in Japan, the lover might express his longings by cryptic references to Nature, the Indian artist employed poetic symbols to charge his subjects with romantic ardour. Flowers were never merely flowers nor clouds clouds. The symbols of Indian poetry the lotus swaying in a stream, the flowering creeper embracing a trunk were intended to suggest passion-haunted ladies.
The sight and feeling of it fasten upon the mind and abide in the memory like a nightmare like one of Piranesi's weirdest and most passion-haunted etchings for the Carceri.
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