{"id":8615,"date":"2010-01-01T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-01T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/01\/01\/virginia-museum-of-fine-arts-has-acquired-rare-hindu-artwork\/"},"modified":"2010-01-01T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-01T12:00:00","slug":"virginia-museum-of-fine-arts-has-acquired-rare-hindu-artwork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/01\/01\/virginia-museum-of-fine-arts-has-acquired-rare-hindu-artwork\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia Museum Of Fine Arts Has Acquired Rare Hindu Artwork"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.littleabout.com\/news\/52052,virginia-museum-acquires-rare-18th-century-legend-scroll-andhra-pradesh.html\">www.littleabout.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, December, 2009: Renowned Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) in Richmond (USA) has acquired a rare 18th-century legend scroll from Andhra Pradesh, one of the few of its kind to survive today.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Joseph M. Dye III, VMFA&#8217;s curatorial chair, reportedly says it is a &#8220;rare and unrivaled painting&#8221; that is &#8220;dramatically&#8221; longer than other known examples and is clearly the work of a master atelier. &#8220;I can say with complete confidence that this is the greatest South Indian painting that I have seen in my 42-year professional career.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The VMFA already has a large collection of Hindu arts and artifacts and has organized Hinduism related exhibitions in the past. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: www.littleabout.com RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, December, 2009: Renowned Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) in Richmond (USA) has acquired a rare,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}