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English: This is a photo of sketches made by Ram Raz and published in 1834. The source images can be found in Ram Raz (1834) Essay on the Architecture of the Hindus, Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland.
The picture of Ayyappa is sketched and embellished in five natural colours—white (rice powder), yellow (turmeric powder), green (ground semi-dry leaves of the 'vaaka' or manchadi' tree, red (a mix of turmeric powder and slaked lime) and black (powdered charred rice husk).
Ancient temples and palaces in Kerala, India, display an abounding tradition of mural paintings mostly dating back between the 9th to 12th centuries CE when this form of art enjoyed royal patronage. The scriptural basis of these paintings can be found in the Sanskrit texts, Chithrasoothram - (Chitrasutra is a part of the Vishnu Dharmottara ...
Cheriyal scroll painting is a stylized version of Nakashi art, rich in the local motifs peculiar to the Telangana. They are at present made only in Hyderabad , Telangana , India . [ 1 ] The scrolls are painted in a narrative format, much like a film roll or a comic strip, depicting stories from Indian mythology, [ 2 ] and intimately tied to the ...
This 700+ years old form of Krishna, is the presiding deity worshipped at the Shrinathji Temple with many paintings showing the rituals and worship offered to the deity in the temple. Modern pichhwais may also portray other forms of Krishna worshipped in the Pushtimarg tradition such as Dwarkadish, the presiding deity at the Dwarkadish Temple .
As kolams have a strong relationship with contemporary art and art history, they are used in the art and media fields. [12] Kolams are also used to simplify the representation of complex protein structures for easy understanding. [13] Kolam, being drawn at Kollur Mookambika Temple by a devotee
Detail wall painting, Ladakh Detail of a wall painting in a Buddhist temple in Ladakh/India. The support for wall paintings is made of earthen plaster, usually consisting of more than one layer of earthen plaster, in which the last layer is rendered as smoothly as possible. The support was covered by a smoothened ground, generally in white.
The fourth story, in the lower right, is titled "Udder Chaos". While the text describes what happens if Holstein cows escape their field, the pictures illustrate the movements of a robber, dressed in black and white stripes and a black mask. At first, he hides among the cows, and then among a choir who the cows pass by, and then once again ...