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  Painting - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rajput painting, a style of Indian painting, evolved and flourished, during the 18th century, in the royal courts of Rajputana, India.
Mughal painting is a particular style of Indian painting, generally confined to illustrations on the book and done in miniatures, and which emerged, developed and took shape during the period of the Mughal Empire 16th -19th centuries).
Tanjore painting is an important form of classical South Indian painting native to the town of Tanjore in Tamil Nadu.
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 Tamil Nation - Dravidian Temple Architecture
A few pillars in the typical Mahendra style, one of them with an inscription of Mahendravarman I, found in the Eltamranatha temple at Kanchipuram seem to suggest that even at the beginning of the seventh century structural mandapas were built.
The Tanjore temple is undoubtedly the grandest achievement of the age.
The temples at Thanjavur, Chidambaram, Sri Rangam, Gangaikonda-Cholapuram, Darasuram and Tribhuvanam amply illustrate the style of architecture that characterised the monuments in southern India between the 11th-13th centuries.
www.tamilnation.org /culture/architecture/temple.htm   (5129 words)

  
 : kamakoti.org
Sri Mahadevendra Saraswati III : He was the son of Achyuta of Chhayavanam in the Tanjore District.
He attained mukti at Svetaranya (Tiruvenkadu) in Tanjore District on Sukla Dasami in the month of Sravana of the cyclic year Parthiva (1586 AD).
Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswati VI: He was known as Venkatasubramanya Dikshita prior to his sanyasa and belonged to the talented family of the great Govinda Dikshita, the Brahmana minister of Tanjore, who is still lovingly remembered as "Ayyan".
www.kamakoti.org /peeth/origin.html   (10247 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: India
Except for the reputed tomb of St. Thomas near Mylapur, the two shrines at the Great and Little Mounts close by, a few early stone monuments, and a few inscriptions on copper in Travancore, ecclesiastical antiquities are wanting before Portuguese times.
The Portuguese churches of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, though without pretension to high artistic style, were in many cases majestic and imposing.
The finest group was naturally at Goa, but the ruins at Bassein and Chaul near Bombay are also of remarkable interest both for number and size.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/07722a.htm   (12490 words)

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