India

Dancers and musicians from a mural in the Monastery I of the Ajanta caves

Painting, mural

500 approximately

The God Shiva dancing

Sculpture, relief

770 approximately

Shiva as Nataraja the dance master

Sculpture, relief

950 approximately

Shiva dancing

Sculpture, sandstone

1000 approximately

Krishna dancing on Kaliya

Sculpture

1000 approximately

Dancing Apsara

Sculpture

1050 approximately

Dancing Apsara

Sculpture

1050 approximately

Procession of Indra, the sun king

Sculpture

1050 approximately

Nartaki dancing

Sculpture

1050 approximately

Dancing Apsara

Sculpture

1050 approximately

Dancing Apsara

Sculpture

1050 approximately

Shiva playing the flute and dancing

Sculpture, relief

1080 approximately

Shiva Nataraja

Sculpture, bronze

1100 approximately

Apsara, celestial dancer

Sculpture

1050 approximately

Plaque from the Bhuvaneçvara temple representing Shiva as Nataraja, the dance-master

Sculpture, relief, grès

1150 approximately

Goddess dancing

Sculpture, stele, chloritic schist

1150 approximately

Shiva as King of the Dancers

Sculpture, bronze, postcard

1200 approximately

Two goddesses dancing and playing musical instruments

Sculpture, marble

1250 approximately

Shiva dancing

Sculpture, bronze

1250 approximately

Shiva Nataraja, the dance-master god  

Sculpture, relief, bronze dravidien

1300 approximately

Nataraja

Sculpture, postcard

1300 approximately

GreeceAthens, collection Alkis Raftis

Dance of gods in the form of animals

Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color

1595 approximately

Dervishes dancing

Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color

1610 approximately

Krishna playing the flute and dancing on the serpent

Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color

1640 approximately

Two dancing Gopis with Krishnain the center

Painting, palm-leaf manuscript

1650 approximately

The god Vishnou dancing to celebrate springtime

Drawing, gouache on paper, manuscript illumination

1650 approximately

Rasalila scene of two Gopis with Krishna in the center

Painting, palm-leaf manuscript

1650 approximately

Ritual with dervishes in India

Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color

1650 approximately

Vaishnavite adorators dancing

Painting, wood, book cover

1700 approximately

Round dance (rasamandala) around Krishna-Radha

Drawing, color, manuscript illumination

1700 approximately

Nataraja – Shiva, king of the dance – adored by his wife Parvati, right and by a devotee, left

Painting, fixed under glass

1700 approximately

Shiva dancing with a lady in front of a tree

Painting

1700 approximately

Krishna with the cowherdesses

Drawing, color, manuscript illumination

1700 approximately

Dancing Krishna

Sculpture, statuette

1750 approximately

Propitiation rite to generate rain

Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color

1800 approximately

Shiva as Nataraja

Sculpture, statuette, bronze

1800 approximately

Dancers in procession during the Holi Lucknow festival, India

Painting, watercolour

1800 approximately

Temple dancer – devadasi – with musicians

Painting

1800 approximately

Ram, Sewak

Dance of the Durga Puja, executed in a temple to celebrate the victory of the goddess Devi on the giant Doorg

Painting, watercolour

1807 approximately

Barathier, Mathieu (Narbonne, France 1784-1867)

Le Dieu et la Bayadère (God and the Nautch)

Painting, pastel

1849

The Rutt Jatthra, a Hindoo festival held at Juggernauth, in Orissa, from a native drawing

Print

1857

The procession of illuminated Taboots during the Mahommedan festival of the Mohurrum

Print

1857

The Hoolie festival

Print

1858

GreeceAthens, collection Alkis Raftis

The Krishna festival of the Visnuists: masked street parade

Print, woodcut

1858

GreeceAthens, collection Alkis Raftis

The Krishna festival of the Vishnouites: Dance in honor of Krishna

Print, woodcut

1858

GreeceAthens, collection Alkis Raftis

The Krishna festival of the Vishnuites: Bachanal in honor of Krishna

Print, woodcut

1858

GreeceAthens, collection Alkis Raftis

Danse de bayadères Dance of the nautch dancers

Print, woodcut 

1863

Rapine (drawing)

Idoles dans le sanctuaire de Djaghernaut

Print, wood

1869

Bortoluzzi, Alfredo

Siva, Master of the Dance

Drawing, monochrome

1938

Bose, Nandalal

The dancing girl’s worship

Painting

1960 approximately

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