11-Day Art Exhibition –Visit & Delve More on Big Temples
Posted on: 20/Mar/2014 12:45:51 PM
An 11-day exhibition, titled ‘Brihadeeswara- the Monument and the living tradition’, begins at Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan in the city on Thursday, has been organized by the Indira Gandhi National Centre (IGNCA).
It constitutes about 200 photographs of paintings, sculptures and outlines stirring upon the higher level facets of the world top temples.
Various hidden alluring aspects of many temples have been disengaging this exhibition. Say for example, the basement of the Brihadeeswara temple stands at a depth of even less than 6 feet; its vimana is 216 feet height.
Disparate from the past exhibitions, this is the first time where all the hidden aspects of many world famous temples have been brought under a single roof in this occasion, said proudly by Prathap Anand Jha, director of Cultural and Informatics Library at IGNCA.
This exhibition is the result of fanatical research by scholars focused in their respective fields for the zenith of years.
We are planning it take it over to Coimbatore, Madurai and Trichy, Mr. Jha said.Many special guests including N. Gopalaswami, former chief election commissioner, Avvai Natarajan, former vice-chancellor of Tamil University, Thanjavur; Bharatanatyam exponent Padma Subrahmanyam and R. Nagaswamy, former director of the department of Archaeology, gave their spiking speech during the inaugural function on Wednesday.
