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 "... invite a way of looking that is different from the habits Western art cultivates."
-San Francisco Chronicle
"You need to go close to the small, ornate paintings...but the results of the inspection are fascinating."
–The Examiner
"Boisterous murals bursting with life."
–Bloomberg News
When the nineteenth-century American painter Edwin Lord Weeks arrived at Udaipur, the capital of Mewar in India’s Rajasthan region —the “Land of Kings”—he found a city “airy, unreal, and fantastic as a dream, —stretching away in a seemingly endless perspective of latticed cupolas, domes, turrets, and jutting oriel-windows, rising tier above tier, at a dizzy height from the ground …”
In the making for more than eight years, Princes, Palaces, and Passion features artworks ranging from the early sixteenth century to the early twentieth century, borrowed from important museum and private collections in Great Britain, Australia, and the United States.
Now, for the first time outside India, this exhibition illuminates the brilliant artistic traditions of this legendary kingdom.
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