Iconographia
5134 Tantra
Devozioni amorose
Gabriele Mandel
1978 / 96 PAGES.
Language: Italian edition
Practical and popular, this Indian manual of “love positions” is not an erotic book but, rather, a map for devotees introducing us to the metaphysics of India, to a world of ethical meanings and rituals that can be deciphered in the illustrated positions.
The aim of tantric practices, introduced by Gabriele Mandel and illustrated below, is to lead human beings towards the achievement of an enlightenment of the one Essence, and the potential union of all that makes up the phenomenological world. The stunning miniatures reproduced here are extremely interesting for the typical blend of Hindu precision, revealed in the chromatic sensitivity of the frames, and Moghul art, which emerges in the wealth of detail and in the exquisiteness of the illuminated drawing.