Shadow puppet of Bima
1600-1800 · Resource
A gilded buffalo-hide shadow puppet of the hero Bima (Bhima of the Mahabharata) used in Javanese wayang kulit theatre. It shows how Indian epic, Islam and local tradition merged in the culture of Java.
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Around 1700
- Jacobite rising of 1745 (1745)
- Great Plague of London (1665)
- Salem witch trials (1692)
- Glorious Revolution (1688)
- Siege of Vienna (1683) (1683)
- Reign of Peter the Great (1682)
- Age of Enlightenment (1685)
- Newton's Principia Mathematica (1687)
- Walpole's premiership (1721)
- English Bill of Rights (1689)