I Ketut Gedé
I Ketut Gedé was a Balinese painter from the village of Singaraja, active at the end of the 19th century.
I Ketut Gedé
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I Ketut Gedé was a Balinese painter from the village of Singaraja, active at the end of the 19th century.
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He is best known for his illustrations of mythological Hindu tales such as the Ramayana. He produced numerous paintings for Herman Neubronner van der Tuuk in the 1880s and 1890s, and from 1905 onwards for W. O. J. Nieuwenkamp, who considered him to be the best classical painter of his time. • Illustration — Bedawang, the mythical turtle carrying the world. • Illustration — Singa Barwang, a winged lion. • Illustration — Scene from the Adi Parva, first book of the Mahabharata. • Illustration — Scene from the Smaradahana, poem in Kawi. • Illustration — Scene from the Ramayana. • Illustration — Scene from the Ramayana.
Scenes from the Adiparwa. Painting on machine-made cotton cloth. 105×170 cm. Singaraja Wereldmuseum (Rotterdam) Inv. no. 26940.
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Fable of the bull, the tiger and the palm-wine tapper: a tiger tries to attack Papaka the palm-wine tapper who hides in a tree. First of two scenes of a Balinese fable narrated in verse in the geguritan Gunawati (see Leiden University Library, Cod. Or. 9319). The first scene of the fable is depicted in a drawing by the same artist also held in the Collection Van der Tuuk (Cod. Or. 3390: 196) Leide
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