Building the Bridge to Lanka. Culture: India (Pahari Hills, Kangra). Dimensions: 10 1/2 x 12 5/8 in. (26.7 x 32.1 cm). Date: ca. 1800.The monkey army is shown constructing a bridge to Lanka so that Sita can be rescued from the evil Ravana. Above, the monkey king Sugriva and his general Hanuman consult with Rama and Lakshmana, who sit in a nearby forest. Typical of late eighteenth-century Kangra painters, the artist devoted great attention to descriptive details and dramatized the composition by the use of the jutting rock formation that intercepts the composition diagonally, energizing the whole. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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