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Painting in Sitabhinji -- Frescoes of Keonjargarh
| Title: | Painting in Sitabhinji -- Frescoes of Keonjargarh | | Author: | Ramachandran, T.N. | | Publication: | Marg | | Enumeration: | Vol. 8 Issue no. 4; September 1955, p. 57-63 | | Abstract: | The colours and other details of a painting on the rock-shelter Ravanachhaya, depicting a royal procession relating to Maharaja Sri Disa Bhanja, are described. The inscription below the painting reads (in Brahmi characters of the 4th century CE) Maharaja Sri Dasa Bhanja, but the earliest known Bhanja chief (Netta Bhanja I) lived in the 8th century CE. The painting is of the vainika or lyrical kind, with an admixture of satya, ideal or intellectual type. The figures are comparable to those at Ajanta and Tanjore: the Ajanta style is seen in the female attendants; the dancing female torso recalls the Apsara-figure in the 11th century Brihadisvara temple, Tanjore; and the Bagh style is seen in some other figures. The illustrations include a sketch of the painting reproduced by R.N. Chakravarti (Keeper, Art Gallery, Indian Museum), and other finds at Sitabhinji: inscribed boulders, a mukhalinga, a figurine of soap-stone, Puri Kushana coins, and bronze kundalas. Source of Abstract: Provided by Publisher | | Tools: |
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