Reverse Glass Painting in India - Hardcover

Professor Anna L. Dallapiccola has a PhD in Indian Art History and a Habilitation (D.Litt.) from the University of Heidelberg, Germany. She was Professor of Indian Art at the South Asia Institute of Heidelberg University from 1971 to 1995, and then was appointed as an Honorary Professor at Edinburgh University in 1991. She lectures at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. From 2000 to 2004 she was Visiting Professor at De Montfort University Leicester. Among her latest publications are: Catalogue of South Indian Paintings in the Collection of the British Museum (2010), The Great Platform at Vijayanagara (2010), Indian Painting: The Lesser Known Traditions (2011), and Kalamkari Temple Hangings, a study of the collection in the V&A (2015). She has at present two concurrent research programmes in India, the first on the art of the Vijayanagara successor states, and the second on the Virabhadra temple at Lepakshi.