

Sacred and Spiritual
From Temple to Canvas, From Faith to Form is an invitation to experience art as devotion, where image becomes presence and colour becomes prayer. Tracing a journey across centuries of Indian art, the exhibition explores how faith transforms from icon to abstraction, from ritual to reflection. More than a survey of styles, it is a meditation on the sacred, an unfolding of light, breath, and belief across time.
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Sacred and Spiritual
From Temple to Canvas, From Faith to Form is an invitation to experience art as devotion, where image becomes presence and colour becomes prayer. Tracing a journey across centuries of Indian art, the exhibition explores how faith transforms from icon to abstraction, from ritual to reflection. More than a survey of styles, it is a meditation on the sacred, an unfolding of light, breath, and belief across time.

Nandalal Bose
Untitled
Kokka woodblock print on paper
8.5 x 7.0 in.

M. V. Dhurandhar
Murli Madhav, 1928
Oleograph on paper
20.2 x 14.2 in.

Unidentified Artist
(Early Bengal School)
Dakshinakali
Mid – late 19th century
Oil on canvas
23.0 x 19.5 in.

Sakti Burman
Maya's Dream, 1966
Acrylic, ink, and graphite on canvas
28.5 x 36.0 in.

Anonymous
Untitled
Watercolour, gouache and gold on
paper pasted on handmade paper
12.5 x 18.0 in.

Jyoti Bhatt
Nag Prabandh, 1994
Serigraph on paper
17.2 x 14.7 in.

S. H. Raza
Shanti, 2010
Acrylic and mixed
media on paper
12.5 x 9.7 in.

Unidentified Artist
The Burning Ghat, Varanasi, c. 1900
Oil on canvas
28.0 x 36.0 in.

Laxman Pai
Untitled, 1959
Waterproof ink and
gouache on paper
30.5 x 22.7 in.

Unidentified Artist (Kalighat Pat)
Kamaley Kamini, late 19th century
Watercolour over lithographed
outlines, highlighted with silver
pigment on paper
14.5 x 11.0 in.

Madhvi Parekh
Untitled, 2009
Acrylic on canvas
29.7 x 23.7 in.

P. T. Reddy
Birth of Ganesha, 1987
Acrylic on canvas
48.0 x 36.0 in.

M. V. Dhurandhar
Todi Ragini, 1919
Watercolour and
gouache on paper
12.5 x 8.2 in.

Ravi Verma
The Maharaja &
Maharani of Mysore, 1930
Oleograph on paper
28.5 x 19.2 in.

Thomas Daniell
Hindoo Temples at Agouree, on the
River Soane, Bahar, 1796
Hand-tinted aquatint on paper
18.0 x 23.5 in.




