Chola Art Galerie:

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·         South india was an age of continuous improvement and refinement of Dravidian art and architecture. They utilised the wealth earned through their extensive conquests in building long-lasting stone temples and exquisite bronze sculptures, in an almost exclusively hindu cultural setting.

Early Chola Period

·         The Cholas were great builders. They continued and developed the art tradition of the Pallavas and Pandyas, whom they succeeded and used their wealth in building long-lasting stone temples and exquisite bronze sculptures. The temple architecture, particularly the Dravida or south India style of temple building, reached the pinnacle of glory under the Cholas.

 

·          During nearly the four centuries long rule of the Cholas, the entire Tamil country was studded with temples and the Chola art traditions were adopted and followed in Sri Lanka and other parts of South India.

The Metal And Stone

·         The Cholas also encouraged plastic art; the metal and stone images cast during the period are exquisitely executed and display a wonderful vigour, dignity and grace.

 

·          The masterpiece of Chola sculpture is the famous Nataraja or the Dancing Shiva image at the great temple of Chidambaram. Numerous such images were also moulded in bronze. This Nataraja has been described as the “cultural epitome” of the Chola period.

 

·         The Cholas also patronized the art of painting. Of all the Chola paintings, the most important are those in the pradakshina passage of the Rajarajesvara Temple. The Chola wall paintings or frescoes are also to be found on the walls of the Vijayalaya Cholesvara Temple.

 

·         It contains large painted figures of Mahakala, Devi and Shiva. In the Rajarajesvara Temple, scenes representing Lord Shiva in his abode of Kailash as Nataraja and tripurantaka are painted on the walls in large and forceful compositions. 

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