Vishnu as Varaha Trampling Demon Hiranyaksha, Antique Indian Manuscript Painting dollhouase aqua and plum

aqua and plum

)  My personal favorite is this illustration of "Figurative Geometry" with literal canaries for the Canary Islands

but even better is the fact that the "I" and the "W" are out of order

along with his wife

Vishnu as Varaha Trampling Demon Hiranyaksha, Antique Indian Manuscript Painting dollhouase aqua and plumI think really nothing beats the color of opaque watercolors used for manuscript paintings like this, just out of this world, and with gold and silver leaf incorporated here too. The subject here is the Hindu deity Vishnu, protector and preserver of the universe, here incarnate as Varaha, with a boar's head and four armed human body (conch shell in one hand, Sudarshana chakra in another, trampling the demon Hiranyaksha as he rescues the Earth. Seems