The Vina Player (1937) is an oil on canvas painting by Hungarian-Indian artist Amrita Sher-Gil. It was number five of her 33 paintings displayed at her solo exhibition in the ballroom at Faletti's Hotel in Lahore, British India, held from 21 to 27 November 1937. Sher-Gil's mother's favourite, it was initially not for sale, but then acquired by the Lahore Museum, through the encouragement of art critic Charles Fabri and the then museum's curator K. N. Sitaram.[1][2]
TheVinaPlayer (1937) is an oil on canvas painting by Hungarian-Indian artist Amrita Sher-Gil. It was number five of her 33 paintings displayed at her...
The veena, also spelled vina (Sanskrit: वीणा IAST: vīṇā), is any of various chordophone instruments from the Indian subcontinent. Ancient musical instruments...
specific forms of the arched harp include the chitra vīṇā with seven strings, the vipanchi vīṇā with nine strings and the mattakokila vīṇā a harp or possibly...
The Rudra veena (Sanskrit: रुद्र वीणा) (also spelled Rudraveena or Rudra vīnā)—also called Bīn in North India—is a large plucked string instrument used...
Sarasvatī: Riverine Goddess of Knowledge. From the Manuscript-carrying Vīṇā-player to the Weapon-wielding Defender of the Dharma. Brill. pp. 1–3. Rajesh Verma (January...
Madhya Pradesh, and hence the name. Allauddin Khan learnt music from Vinaplayer Wazir Khan, an exponent of the Senia gharana. The Maihar gharana is therefore...
Khan was a 20th-century 'beenkar' and a vocalist. He was the grandson of legendary vinaplayer Wazir Khan. Dabir Khan learned veena from his grandfather...
The kinnari vina (Sanskrit: किन्नरी वीणा) is a historical veena, a tube zither with gourds attached to act as resonators and frets. It was played in India...
prisoners of war to Akbar, a view of the bin player Naubat Khan (in white dress holding Rudra Vina). Illustration from the Akbar-nama, Mughal school, towards...
Riverine Goddess of Knowledge: From the Manuscript-carrying Vīṇā-player to the Weapon-wielding Defender of the Dharma. BRILL. p. 123. ISBN 978-90-04-15814-6...
survived in the proto-Bengali–Assamese Charyapadas. One famous tantric Buddhist musician was the Mahāsiddha Vīṇāpa (thevinaplayer), one of the 84 mahasiddhas...
(vinaplayers) at the Jor Bangla temple in Bishnupur are particularly noteworthy; it is worth noting that the far-flung Dragon mouth on the bow of the...
Ālāpiṇī vīṇā and eka-tantrī vīṇāThe ālāpiṇī vīṇā was a medieval stick-zither veena in India, with a single string and a gourd resonator. Later forms...
of ancient vina), and in Egypt until the Hellenistic Age (after 500 B.C). It can still be found today in Sub-Saharan Africa. From India the arched harp...
to the Carnatic gottuvadhyam (chitra vina) it has no frets and is played with a slide. The Vichitra Veena is the modern form of ancient Ekatantri Veena...
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