start: Nov 01, 2014 05:30PM
End: Nov 01, 2014 08:30PM
Venue: Thakkar Bapa Vidyala,Venkat Narayana Street, TNagar, Chennai
Description:
Lecturer: Artist G Chandru, former Principal, Government College of Fine Arts, Chennai
Amaravathi, near Vijayawada, was an important Buddhist place. A stupa was built here during the Asoka period in 2nd century CE. After the decline of Buddhism, the stupa was in disuse. Recovered in abandoned and vandalised condition in the 19th century, the precious sculptures in it are now housed in Chennai Government museums and British Museum.
Under the Satavahanas and the Ikshvakus, the Amaravati art heralds classicism in Indian art, followed by the Imperial Guptas. Excelling in composition technique, we see here for the first time in relief modelling lighter and deeper etching, differentiated planes, perspective and distance and foreshortening
Nalagiri panel that narrates taming of a rogue elephant by the Buddha will discussed
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