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Art and Architecture of Nalanda deals in details about Nalanda a Buddhist monoment of international fame. The author of this monograph has presented Nalanda in brief with all its academic and artistic pursuit’s for over one millennium as a center of the Buddhist learning as well as heart of art and architecture. In Ist chapter an effort is made to furnish in details about the development of Nalanda from a place of pilgrimage of Buddhists and Jains to a renowned ...
The Sun Temple of Konarak in Orissa near the shore of the Bay of Bengal. Built in 13th century by Narasimha of the Eastern Ganga Dynassty, the temple once served as a landmark for the European Sailors, who called it “The Black Pagodaâ€. The Konarak Temple is considered to be one of the Gem in Indian Architecture. In the past many scholars have written books, monographs and articles, but the measures on conservation and preservation of Sun Temple seldom ...
The book deals with the religions, art, architecture, excavation and conservation of monuments of Orissa. It contains seven chapters. The Chapter I is devoted to Buddhism, discovery of Buddhist stupas, chaityas, monasteries through excavations at Lalitgiri/Udaigiri. The discovery of precious reliccaskets with sacred relic of Lord Buddha, huge Apsidal chaitya griha, large number of sculptures, seals, sealings, inscriptions hitherto unknown. In chapter II precious ...
The book 'Early Buddhist Art in India' deals with the evolution of Indian art from 300 B.C. to 300 A.D, which is believed to be the formative phase of Indian art, an age of the revival of the sculptural art. The Indian artists with centuries of background in creative art on wood, ivory, clay, bamboo, devoted to use stone as a medium. This is evident from Satvahana, Sunga and Kushana period, in which the sculptures are nothing but wooden prototype. Indian art with ...