Ananda Coomaraswamy
C (1877–1947) One of the first Indian intellectuals to address a mainly Western audience.
He was born to a Hindu father and an English mother in modern-day Sri Lanka.
Despite his geological training, he had discovered his real calling in the study of art by 1910.
Coomaraswamy was instrumental in promoting Hindu miniature painting as a separate form from modern Muslim court painting.
He was appointed curator of Indian and Muslim art at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston as a result of these and other interpretative academic efforts.
From 1917 until 1931, he was the director of the museum, and his catalog of the collection demonstrates meticulous and impartial research.
He started publishing works on aesthetics, myth, religion, and culture in his latter years, concentrating not just on India but also on old Europe.
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