Jul 21 2023 to Jul 21 2023 6 p.m.

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Where

Museum of Art & Photography (MAP)

Kasturba Road, Bengaluru 560001

Event Description

Friday, 21st July, 6:00 PM (IST) Mazumdar-Shaw Auditorium, First Floor, Museum of Art & Photography The medieval era is largely understood as having been generally characterised by a pre-modern, feudal and patriarchal ethos. At the same time, inscriptions and monumental shrines in India associated with royal patronage point to the prevalence of large bustling cities, which traded far and wide across the seas contributing to certain elements of cosmopolitanism and varied synergies. Far from being restricted to roles defined by patriarchy, women in these metropolitan contexts played a major role in the patronage of art and architecture, as well as in the field of letters. Through this talk, Sharada Srinivasan aims to explore these lesser known facets; the ways in which distinctions between art and reality may be blurred; and how women may have played a more significant role than previously noted in pre-modern times. This event has been curated under Thinking Cities, MAP’s public programming theme for the quarter. Through this theme, we explore and reimagine cities through the lenses of space, identity, history, memory and more.