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Sankhamul Bridge is a pedestrian bridge over the Bagmati River in Nepal. It lies in Sankhamul. It is the connection between Kathmandu District and Lalitpur District of Nepal. The width of the bridge deters four wheeler vehicles to pass through it.
Thakur Prasad Mainali (born 1934), sculptor, educator; chief of arts and craft department of the Royal Nepal Academy; Kiran Manandhar (born 1957), painter; founding chancellor of the Nepal Academy of Fine Arts; Chandra Man Singh Maskey (1900–1984), painter, and illustrator; early 20th century leader in the development of Nepali contemporary art
The sculpture of Nepal is best known for small religious figures and ritual objects in bronze or copper alloy, but also has other strengths. The Newar people of Nepal had a long-lasting specialism in casting small bronze figures, mostly religious and especially Buddhist, considerable numbers of which were exported to India and Tibet over many centuries.
Hundreds of artefacts were looted from Nepal as it opened up from the 1960s to the 1980s.
National Museum of Nepal. Kathmandu is home to a number of museums and art galleries, including the National Museum of Nepal and the Natural History Museum of Nepal. Nepals's art and architecture is a dazzling display from medieval to the present, which is a heady amalgamation of two of the ancient and greatest religions of the world – Hinduism and Buddhism.
The arrival of Lain Singh Bangdel (1919–2002) in 1961 marks as an introduction to Modern Art in Nepal. He brought with him, the exposure to Modern art movements from Paris to a country which was slowly opening to the world only after 1950s. With the patronage of King Mahendra, Lain Singh Bangdel introduced abstract art to the Nepali audience.
The art of Nepal. Subcategories. This category has the following 6 subcategories, out of 6 total. + Nepalese artists (9 C, 21 P) M. Art museums and galleries in Nepal ...
Nepal Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA) is the umbrella organization of Nepali artists, researchers and art critics, and an arts institution for research and for exhibitions. [1] A museum in Kathmandu , in a neoclassical building from the 1930s, [ 2 ] presents collections of both traditional and contemporary paintings and other works.