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
- Newton's Principia Mathematica (1687)
- Glorious Revolution (1688)
- English Bill of Rights (1689)
- Peter the Great (1672)
- Catherine the Great (1729)
- George Washington (1732)
- Age of Enlightenment (1685)
- Kingdom of Prussia proclaimed (1701)
- Frederick the Great (1712)
- Johann Sebastian Bach (1685)