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| | Standing Vishnu as Keshava [Karnataka (probably Belur), India] (18.41) | Object Page | Timeline of Art History | The ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03) |
 | | It sometimes appears stolid and heavy, and is distinguished by an emphasis on pierced openwork canopies and fretwork, with the play of light over highly decorative surfaces. |
 | | This large image of Keshava, one of the twenty-four manifestations of Vishnu, is a Hoysala masterpiece. |
 | | On the bottom register, in the center, an inscription records the image as the work of Dasoja of Balligrama, an artist known to us from other inscribed images at Belur, where he and his son Chavana worked. |
| www.metmuseum.org /toah/ho/07/sss/hod_18.41.htm (279 words) |
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