Suresh Kumar

Cover reveal for my first book! The Tropical Turn @ucpress comes to a bookstore near you from March 2023 - just in time for spring in the Northern Hemisphere!

The library of San Marco, Florence, 1444

Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Florence

A few more from the Brancacci Chapel including Masaccio's Baptism of the Neophytes (1425-1427)

Masaccio's Expulsion from the Garden of Eden (1425-1427) at the Brancacci Chapel, Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence

Cylinder seal depicting cattle and reed huts, c. 3400-3100 BCE, southern Mesopotamia, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Decorative terracottas from one of two terraced brick temples at Ahicchatra (350-500 CE), British Museum. The excavations by Alois Führer here (1891-2) yielded hundreds of terracottas that were deposited in Lucknow. On display at the British Museum's Ancient India exhibition.

The larger surviving terraced temple at Ahicchatra was also covered with decorative terracottas including large narrative panels that are presently in the collection of the National Museum in New Delhi

Both surviving terraced brick temples at Ahicchatra were dedicated to Śiva and one still preserves a heavily vandalised liṅga. These stand as some of the most significant surviving structures from the Gupta period.

Garnet- and turquoise-inlaid gold reliquary with an image of the Buddha, c. 100 CE, Bimaran stūpa 2, Afghanistan, British Museum (on display in the Buddhist section of the ongoing Ancient India exhibition)

Āyāgapaṭa depicting a Jina surrounded by auspicious symbols, 1st century CE, Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, National Museum, New Delhi. On display in the British Museum’s Ancient India exhibition.

Limestone panel engraved with nāgas, c. 400-500 CE, Sri Lanka, British Museum. On display in the ongoing Ancient India exhibition.

Doorjamb with Śivagaṇas, c. 550 CE, northern India, British Museum. On display in the ongoing Ancient India exhibition.