“GROWING IN THE mud, and yet so clean, the lotus is a symbol of purity,” writes the Sri Lankan historian Ananda K. Coomaraswamy in his 1913 book “The Arts and Crafts of India & Ceylon.” The lotus pool ...

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[Photo provided by The Trustees of British Museum] In the royal palaces of Assyrian kings, art served one ultimate ... Suzhou Museum exhibition is the lotus flower, which made its way onto the ...

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Two minor siblings drowned in the Kengeri lake in Bengaluru on Monday evening while attempting to fetch lotus flowers, said the police. The rescue personnel on Tuesday recovered the body of John ...

“In terms of my queer identity, I love what happens when I paint flowers larger than me,” Bickmore ... the preceding centuries of naturalist art. She is best remembered today for the namesake ...