The Colonial Art of Peru – Paintings of the Cuzco School

Cuzco School of Painting is the most distinctive and major school of painting in Spain’s American colonies which evolved during the 17th and 18th centuries in the old Inca capital of Cuzco. Indian and Mestizo artists transformed formal and iconographical types from European art to create a uniquely American style of religious painting, characterized by brilliant colours, flattened space, and a strongly decorative aesthetic

 

On view are contemporary reproductions of some of these paintings

 

Inauguration by H.E. Mr. Carlos Rafael Polo Castañeda, Ambassador of Peru to India on Tuesday, 11th June 2019 at 18:30

 

(Collaboration: Embassy of Peru)

SUMMER SONATA – A FESTIVAL OF OPERA, BALLET AND CONCERT FILMS

Dedicated to the Memory of Dr. R.P. Jain

Curated by Sunit Tandon

Introduced by Sunit Tandon and Samaresh Chatterji

 

Johannes Brahms: A German Requiem

(79 min; 1978; dvd; English subtitles)

With Gundula Janowitz (Soprano) and Jose van Dam (Bass-Baritone)

Wiener Singverein

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor: Herbert von Karajan

 

The German Requiem is Brahms’ largest single composition and a pivotal work in his creative life. It bears little relation to the Requiem Mass of the Catholic liturgy, being less a requiem for the dead and more an act of consolation for the bereaved. This is the only version of this great work that captures Herbert von Karajan conducting this great work, with two outstanding soloists

 

Introduced by Samaresh Chatterji

 

 

 

 

Where is Algeria Going?

Speakers: Ambassador Kishan S. Rana, Professor Emeritus, and a Senior Fellow at DiploFoundation and former Indian Ambassador and High Commissioner for Algeria, Czechoslovakia, Kenya, Mauritius, and Germany; and Prof. Gulshan Dietl,  Former Professor, Center for West Asian Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University 

 

Chair: Ambassador K.P. Fabian

Adventures in Ladakh: On Land and Water

Illustrated lecture by Ranjan Pal, adventurer and intrepid traveler

 

Chair: Vaibhav Kala, Founder of Aquaterra Adventures

 

The lecture presents Ranjan Pal’s travels by water and land in Zanskar region of Ladakh. A whitewater rafting trip down the Zanskar river, considered one of the most spectacular white-water experiences, is the crowning achievement in any serious paddler’s list of river descents. The lecture will also focus on a five-day trek from Tso Kar to Tso Moriri; bookended by these two beautiful lakes, the trek traverses the high Changthang plateau and crosses four mountain passes all above 5000 metres