Art, Architecture & Sculpture of India : Part 1

Divinity, mysticism, innovation and magnificence are the best ways to define Indian Art , Architecture & Sculpture.

Serene Maitreya (“Future Buddha”), a contemporary

idol once consecrated by the Dalai

Lama. In the fifteenth-century Thikse

Monastery near Leh, the capital of Ladakh.

  

Illuminated manuscript, c. eighteenth

century, of the Gita Govinda, India’s last

great devotional text. Written in Sanskrit as

an allegorical lyric poem six centuries earlier,

it describes through the recounting of

Krishna and Radha’s love the union of a

human soul with God. In the Maharaja

Sawai Man Singh II Museum, also known as

the City Palace Museum, in Jaipur,Rajasthan.

The majestic white marble carvings

of Dilwara, a Jain temple built on the

order of Vimala Shah, trusted adviser to

Gujarat’s kings, in 1031.

  

  


With the Himalaya Mountains

beckoning in the distance, tourists file to and

from the Bhimkali palace and temple, in

Sarahan, Himachal Pradesh. A monument to

India’s Rampur Bushahr rulers, the stone and

timber complex’s exact date of construction

is unknown, but its age has been estimated at

eight hundred years.