Myth & Devotion

Before art was decoration it was devotion, and these are the paintings that carried belief. Botticelli’s Birth of Venus and Primavera revived classical myth for Renaissance Florence. Michelangelo’s Creation of Adam needs no introduction. Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights remains the strangest picture in Western art, still unresolved after five hundred years of interpretation. Rembrandt’s Belshazzar’s Feast catches the exact instant a king reads his own doom on a wall.

Alongside them sits Indian devotional painting — Raja Ravi Varma’s Saraswati, Radha in the Moonlight, Sakuntala Patralekhan — where gods and epic heroines are given faces, bodies and weather. Two traditions, the same instinct.

Printed on archival canvas in the original proportions, unframed and rolled so nothing is cropped to fit a frame, with a certificate of authenticity.