*Product Size mentioned is inclusive of wooden frame.
Material information:
- 22-carat gold foil
- semi precious stones and AD stones
- Unbreakable fiberglass
- teak wood frame
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Tanjore art is a cultural treasure which can be passed to next generations. Don’t hesitate to invest in a good quality tanjore painting and adorn your home with this beautiful art form.
About the Art:
Thanjavur painting is a classical South Indian painting style, which was inaugurated from the town of Thanjavur (anglicized as Tanjore) and spread across the adjoining and geographically contiguous Tamil country. The art form draws its immediate resources and inspiration from way back about 1600 AD
Thanjavur paintings are characterized by rich, flat, and vivid colors, simple iconic composition, glittering gold foils overlaid on delicate but extensive gesso work, and inlay of glass beads and pieces or very rarely precious and semi-precious gems. In Thanjavur paintings, one can see the influence of Deccani, Vijayanagar, Maratha, and even European or Company styles of painting.
Essentially serving as devotional icons, the subjects of most paintings are Hindu gods, goddesses, and saints. Episodes from Hindu Puranas, Sthala-Puranas, and other religious texts were visualized, sketched or traced and painted with the main figure or figures placed in the central section of the picture (mostly within an architecturally delineated space such as a mantapa or prabhavali) surrounded by several subsidiary figures, themes, and subjects. There are also many instances when Jain, Sikh, Muslim, other religious, and even secular subjects were depicted in Tanjore paintings.
