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  2. Kandyan period frescoes - Wikipedia

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    To separate different scenes, the artists have drawn a tree, a river, or a house. The pictures of people were drawn in Parshawa Darshi Kramaya [pārśava-darśī-kramaya], or drawing the faces and legs facing to a side. The background of the frescoes were painted in a dark red color, and flowers like Lotus, Pandanus flowers are used to fill the ...

  3. Vere Temple - Wikipedia

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    Vere Temple was born at Boreham Manor, two miles east of Warminster, Wiltshire to parents Grenville and Katherine Temple. Her father was a man of "private means". [2] She showed an early aptitude for art, and her mother compiled an album of her drawings, the earliest of which was dated December 1901 and in which "it is possible to spot evidence of the extraordinary 'eye' which was in due ...

  4. Kerala mural painting - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Pichhwai - Wikipedia

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    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 .

  6. Hindu art - Wikipedia

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    viseshakacchedya — art of painting the face and body with colored unguents and cosmetics. tandula-kusuma-bali-vikara — art of preparing offerings from rice and flowers. pushpastarana — art of making a covering of flowers for a bed. dasana-vasananga-raga — art of applying preparations for cleansing the teeth, clothes, and painting the body.

  7. Kolam - Wikipedia

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    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

  8. Twenty-five Kansai flower temples - Wikipedia

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    The abbots of each temple provide large groups of 10 or more a Buddhist flower sermon, [3] and the flower temples are common destinations for hanami (flower viewing) [4] [5] as well as pilgrimages [6] which can include collecting shuin (seal stamps) from each of the temples.

  9. Buddhas and bodhisattvas in art - Wikipedia

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    Relief depicting the bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara, Plaosan temple, Java, 9th-century. The many different varieties of Buddhist art often show buddhas and bodhisattvas, as well as depictions of the historical Buddha, known as Gautama Buddha (or Siddhārtha Gautama, Śākyamuni, or Tathāgata).