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Peter de Bruijn studied and worked at the Kern Institute, Leiden University in The Netherlands, one of Europe's centres of expertise for South Asia and the
Himalayan region. He studied arts and material culture of South- and Southeast Asia including the languages (epigraphical) Tamil and
Sanskrit. He did much field research in India, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Cambodia, Nepal, China and Malaysia on ancient Hindu and Buddhist art.
He is a specialist and senior lecturer on Indian Culture and Hindu
and Buddhist art from South and Southeast Asia and mainly focuses on South
Indian, Sri Lankan, Khmer and Indonesian art (800 - 1700 AD). His main
interest is the iconography and styles of South Indian bronzes and Khmer
sculptures. Peter de Bruijn is an expert member of Gavelers Auctioneers in Amsterdam and Fine Art Research, Art Experts Inc, Florida
USA, USPAP certified.
During his work for the Kern Institute and The British Museum in London he developed an interest in dealing and
appraising art and from a private collecting of fine South- and Southeast
Asian art in 1995 he started the Dhyani Asian Arts gallery.
He wrote several books and articles on South- Southeast Asian Art. A
selection:
*‘Descriptie van
de Nalanda Gedige, Sri Lanka’,
Rotterdam 1997. Peter J.J. de Bruijn. Click here to read the article
*‘De Boeddha
met de gouden ushnisha’,
Aziatische Kunst, 28, Nr. 2, Amsterdam 1998.
Peter J.J. de Bruijn. Click here for an abstract of this article
*‘Maskers uit
Sri Lanka’,
Aziatische Kunst, 28, Nr. 4, Amsterdam 1998,
Peter J.J. de Bruijn. Click here for an abstract of this article
*Several annotations in: ABIA South and Southeast
Asian Art and Archaeology Index,
edited
by prof.dr Karel R. van Kooij, London 1999,
Peter J.J. de Bruijn
*‘Vishvarupa
Vishnu uit Changu Narayana’,
Aziatische Kunst, 29, Nr. 1, Amsterdam 1999, Dr
Anna Ślączka en Drs Peter
J.J. de Bruijn
*‘Hindoe kunst
in Nederland’,
OHM-Vani, april - juni Amsterdam 2000,
Peter J.J. de Bruijn. Click here to read the article
*‘Karaikkalammaiyar’,
Aziatische Kunst, 30, Nr.
2, Amsterdam 2000, Peter J.J. de Bruijn. Click here for an abstract of this article
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*Kāraikkālammaiyār: an iconographical and
textual study.
Rotterdam 2007, Peter J.J. de Bruijn, 148 pp. 19 colour
plates, 13 B/W plates, ISBN 978-90-811564-1-7. Click
here for a preview
*Poems
for Śiva: illustrated with masterpieces of Hindu art.
Rotterdam
2007, Peter J.J. de Bruijn, 106 pp., 22 colour plates, 16 B/W plates, ISBN
978-90-811564-2-4 Click here for a preview
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Visvakarman.
Rotterdam
2007, A selection of South- and Southeast Asian art. (in Dutch). 100 pp., 44 B/W
plates, ISBN 978-90-811564-3-1
*Shiva Nataraja: wie is dat
eigenlijk?
Aziatische Kunst, Amsterdam 2009
*The Nālanda Gedigē in Sri Lanka.
A description of the Nālanda temple in Sri Lanka.
In progress.
For more information on the publications please click here
Chief editor Hinduism
Today Magazine on Poems for Siva: “the poetry has been translated with
a nice touch, much better than the usual translations..…it is
meaningful.”
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