Description
Historical context
Significance
Did you know?
The timeline
From clay seals to painted courtyards
Scroll down through time. Click any artifact card to open its story, or use the era chips above to jump.
21LEM301T · Indian Art Form · CLA-I
Walk from the bronze workshops of Mohenjo-daro to the painted walls of Ajanta, the dancing bronzes of the Cholas, the jewelled miniatures of the Mughal court, and the living folk traditions of Madhubani and Warli. Every artifact is clickable.
The timeline
Scroll down through time. Click any artifact card to open its story, or use the era chips above to jump.
About this project
Indian art is not one story but many overlapping ones. Placing artifacts on a single axis makes it easy to see continuities, such as the lost-wax casting that links the Dancing Girl of Mohenjo-daro with a Chola Nataraja three and a half millennia later, and ruptures, such as the arrival of Persian miniature techniques at the Mughal court.
Each artifact card opens a panel with its date, place, material, historical context and significance, plus a short "did you know" note for presentations.