Traditional Art

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'Traditional' here means 'Physical', as in artworks which are NON-DIGITAL in nature.

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Dancing Girl from the Indus Valley Civilisation (infosec.pub)

submitted 6 hours ago by SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/traditional_art@lemmy.world

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Dancing Girl is a prehistoric bronze sculpture made in lost-wax casting about c. 2300–1751 BC in the Indus Valley Civilisation city of Mohenjo-daro (in modern-day Pakistan), which was one of the earliest cities. The statue is 10.5 centimetres (4.1 in) tall, and depicts a nude young woman or girl with stylized ornaments, standing in a confident, naturalistic pose. Dancing Girl is highly regarded as a work of art.

In 2016, a Pakistani barrister, Javed Iqbal Jaffery, petitioned the Lahore High Court for the return of the statue, claiming that it had been "taken from Pakistan 60 years ago on the request of the National Arts Council in Delhi but never returned". According to him, the Dancing Girl was to Pakistan what Da Vinci's Mona Lisa was to Europe. However, no public request to India has been made by the Pakistani government.

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[–] SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 6 hours ago (4 children)

In 1973, British archaeologist Mortimer Wheeler described the item as his favourite statuette:

She's about fifteen years old I should think, not more, but she stands there with bangles all the way up her arm and nothing else on. A girl perfectly, for the moment, perfectly confident of herself and the world. There's nothing like her, I think, in the world.

[–] Dionysus@leminal.space 11 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Prince Andrew would be proud.

[–] lemmyman@lemmy.world 0 points 2 hours ago

Honestly reminded me of that one sketch in Epsteins birthday book by that one guy

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