Art, Architecture & Sculpture Of India : Part 3

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

 

Close up view of a stucco figure in the

Meenakshi Temple in Madurai, Tamil Nadu.

The figures represent deities from Hindu

mythology and are sculpted onto the towering

gateways (called gopura) of the temple.

 

Site of the Meenakshi Temple in Madurai, Tamil Nadu.

Built by the Pandyas between the seventh and

tenth centuries,the temple complex is enclosed

within high walls beyond four gateways (like the

one shown here) with distinctly ornate stucco detailing.

 

Art, Architecture & Sculpture Of India : Part 2

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


  

In Rajasthan, vibrant colors and patterns

come together seamlessly, as the

façade of this home in Jaipur attests.

In Jaipur, Rajasthan, site of the Jantar Mantar, one of five monolithic observatories constructed at the behest of Sawai Jai Singh between 1728 and 1734. Within this sculptural setting, some of the observatory’s original weather-forecasting instruments remain in use.

Constructed in 1784

as part of a famine relief project, in an

effort to foster employment, the perfectly

symmetrical exterior of the Bara Imambara

ceremonial hall. Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh.

   

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.