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Author: G. Venkataramayya Publisher: ISBN: Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 208
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This book begins by giving a brief review of temple studies inIndiaand in Andhra Pradesh and in particular the significance of Srisailam prakara aswell as literacy importance are discussed in detail. The patronage byvarious dynastic rulers leading to the physical growth of Srisailam templecomplex, the prevalence of various Saivite sects are presented on the basis ofarchaeological and literary sources from Telugu and Sanskrit. The materialculture identified in the sculptures generally comprising architecture, costumes, ornaments, hair styles, head dresses, household objects, etc. are described in detail with linedrawings.
Author: G. Venkataramayya Publisher: ISBN: Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 208
Book Description
This book begins by giving a brief review of temple studies inIndiaand in Andhra Pradesh and in particular the significance of Srisailam prakara aswell as literacy importance are discussed in detail. The patronage byvarious dynastic rulers leading to the physical growth of Srisailam templecomplex, the prevalence of various Saivite sects are presented on the basis ofarchaeological and literary sources from Telugu and Sanskrit. The materialculture identified in the sculptures generally comprising architecture, costumes, ornaments, hair styles, head dresses, household objects, etc. are described in detail with linedrawings.
Author: Kirsti Evans Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9789004105751 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 314
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This contextual study of narrative reliefs depicting Hindu epics and puranas on specific South Indian Hoysal a temples provides a detailed exposition of narrative episodes paired with photographs, illustrating and reviewing the stories and exploring techniques of Indian visual narrative.
Author: George Michell Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9780521441100 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 340
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George Michell provides a pioneering and richly illustrated introduction to the architecture, sculpture and painting of Southern India under the Vijayanagara empire and the states that succeeded it. This period, encompassing some four hundred years, from the fourteenth to the eighteenth century, was endowed with an abundance of religious and royal monuments which remain as testimonies to the history and ideology behind their evolution. The author evaluates the legacy of this artistic heritage, describing and illustrating buildings, sculptures and paintings that have never been published before. In a previously neglected area of art history, the author presents an original and much-needed reassessment.
Author: Winand M. Callewaert Publisher: Manohar Publishers ISBN: 9788173046568 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 260
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Millions of foreign and Indian tourists and pilgrims visit the thousands of shrines that testify to India's great cultural and religious heritage. For many of them the local priest or their own childhood reading of the Indrajal comics are the only aids to understand and interiorise the message of the 'stones'. For them and for others this book has been written as an introduction to the mythological and religious background of the gods worshipped in temples and carved in beautiful statues. It also gives a detailed description of the numerous episodes depicted on the walls and inside the shrines. A journey through south India is definitely an aesthetic experience. It becomes a religious experience if the visitor can enter into the mind of the sculptors and devotees who gave the best of their lives to construct and decorate the temples. Their efforts were inspired mainly by devotion, even if some of them belonged to travelling guilds who were responsible for the great similarity in the immense variety of sculptures. With this in mind, the visitor knows he walks on sacred ground, centuries old, when he enters a temple or climbs the Shravana Belgola hill to have darshan of Shree Gomateshvara. At the same time she or he may like to know why Ganeshji has the head of an elephant or why Snake-gods are so abundantly present on the walls of temples, along with erotic scenes and images of Shiva in so many different forms. And what stories of the mythological past are told to explain why Shiva is also worshipped in the form of a Lingam? Finally, God in ancient India was not only worshipped as a man, but also as a woman. All that appears' if one looks attentively at the living stones. A fascinating reading for all those interested in the history of and cultural tourism in India.
Author: Adam Hardy Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 264
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Through lucid visual analysis, accompanied by drawings, this book will allow readers to appreciate the concepts underlying designs that at first sight often seem bewilderingly intricate. The book will be divided into six parts that cover the history and development of the design and architecture of Indian temples.
Author: Evans Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004378960 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 302
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This volume is a detailed exposition of the visual retellings from the Rāmāyaṇa, Mahābhārata and Bhāgavata Purāṇa on specific South Indian Hoysaḷa temples. The first part of the book deals with the Amṛteśvara temple, particularly its narrative panels depicting the Rāmāyaṇa, Mahābhārata and Bhāgavata Purāṇa. The text is a résumé of episodes paired with photographs which illustrate and review the visual retellings and explore Indian techniques of visual narrative. Corollary material from other Hoysaḷa temples with narrative reliefs, including new sites, is presented in the second part. There are very few published contextual studies of Indian narrative sculptures, and so the book is a contribution to the documentation of Indian medieval art, examining visual narratives within the context of the Hindu temple. The book is illustrated with 150 photographs.
Author: M. Adinarayana Publisher: ISBN: Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 276
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The Book Structures And Producing Fine Sculpture In The Andhra-Kalinga Region. The State Of Liberty That These Artists Enjoye Is Seen On The Delineation Of Certain Motifs Used To Decorate The Architectural Members Of The Temples Located In The North-Coastal Andhra In Particular And South India In General. In The Light Of The Fact That Most Of The Books Deal Only On Temple Architecture Of The North-Coastl Andhra, The Current Work Shifts Its Focus On The Decorative Element, And Aspect Hitheto Neglected By The Scholars. The Study Encapsules The Various Elements Of Figure Sculpture And Geometrical Designs Including Depiction Of Flora And Fauna As Found On A New Temples Located At Mukhalingam, Simhachalam And Srikurmam Built During The Period Between The 9Th And 13Th Centuries A.D.
Author: Marijke J. Klokke Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9789004118652 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 200
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How has ancient India s incredibly rich literary heritage been visually represented in temples in South and Southeast Asia is the central question of this volume. It discusses theoretical aspects, provides new interpretations, and proposes innovative interpretations through advanced comparative and contextual approaches.
Author: G. Venkataramayya
Author: G. Venkataramayya
Author: Amarpal Singh
Author: Kirsti Evans
Author: George Michell
Author: Winand M. Callewaert
Author: Adam Hardy
Author: Evans
Author: M. Adinarayana
Author: Annapurna Garimella
Author: Marijke J. Klokke