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anonymous: The Death of the Demoness Putana: Folio from a Bhagavata Purana Series  wikidata:Q78717458 reasonator:Q78717458
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The Death of the Demoness Putana: Folio from a Bhagavata Purana Series Edit this at Wikidata
title QS:P1476,en:"The Death of the Demoness Putana: Folio from a Bhagavata Purana Series Edit this at Wikidata"
label QS:Len,"The Death of the Demoness Putana: Folio from a Bhagavata Purana Series Edit this at Wikidata"
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Description
English: The blue infant Krishna is shown killing the demoness Putana, who had disguised herself as a beautiful woman in order to kill him. Sensing her perfidy, Krishna is able to suck up her poison milk and drain her of life without harming himself. The demoness, revealed in her true form, lies prostrate beneath him. Two women and a child prostrate toward the giant figure and a house is seen to the left. The picture is made more dramatic by the large field of red in the background. Red is often used in early paintings to highlight the emotional vibrancy of an event. The style of this work is transitional between that of early indigenous Indian paintings and the more naturalistic style of the Mughals that was adopted at the court of Bikaner as early as the 1630s.
Depicted people Krishna Edit this at Wikidata
Date circa 1610
date QS:P571,+1610-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
institution QS:P195,Q160236
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Place of creation India Edit this at Wikidata
Notes
English: "The Death of the Demoness Putana: Page from a dispersed Bhagavata Purana (Ancient Stories of Lord Krishna), ca. 1610
References The Met object ID: 64890 Edit this at Wikidata
Source/Photographer https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/64890?searchField=All&sortBy=Relevance&ft=putana&offset=0&rpp=20&pos=2
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