Cultural Negotiation in Early Sikh Imagery: Portraiture of the Sikh Gurus to 1849 – by Atsushi Ikeda
Sept 2019 Abstract This paper argues that Guru Nanak came to be painted in Hindu-like frontal in single portrait, which implies the preexisting custom of the production and consumption of images of the Sikh Gurus. The idea that he is deified in these paintings is based on the theory that a frontal view is used … Read more