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Debra Diamond

Debra Diamond

Debra Diamond is the curator of South and Southeast Asian art at Smithsonian’s Freer and Sackler Galleries and a specialist in Indian court painting.

A Jodhpur court artist painted “Three Aspects of the Absolute,” illustrating the universe’s creation according to the Nath sect. Completed in 1823, the 3.5-by-5-foot painting accompanies the manuscript Nath Charit, a part of the Mehrangarh Museum’s Jodhpur Royal Collection.

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