Abstract
It is acknowledged that South Asian paintings are characterized by the facial mode in each period. This paper will argue that physical features of South Asian people such as eye and nose prompted painters to render a figure in profile in the early modern period.

Atsushi Ikeda. (2017) Profiled figure: the modes of representing a face in South Asian painting, Journal of Indian Studies, Volume 3, Issue 1.
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