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
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- Palace of Versailles built (1661)
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- Newton's Principia Mathematica (1687)
- Glorious Revolution (1688)
- Vivaldi's Four Seasons (1725)
- Christopher Wren's St Paul's Cathedral (1675)
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