page_title: Thanjavur painting
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caption_attribution_description: English: Thanjavur style paintings are famous for their beauty and exactitude. Although ther are many talented artists for Tanjavur paintings, creations of only a few have divinity and reality.With the blessings of the great divine sage Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharishi, over the past 15 years Artist Dr. Muthukrishnan has been creating traditional Thanjavur paintings maintaining is characteristics mark. His paintings are divine, lively and are comparable to the grace and divinity of the temple deities.At Thanjai Ramana Arts &amp; Crafts, we not only make Thanjavur art paintings, but also make Modern Arts and teach that ancient art to anyone who has the interest to lear n it.&lt;brRamana Arts &amp; Crafts sells the thanjavur pinting of the artist Dr. M. Muthukrishnan. He is from a traditional background. His family is involved in thanjavur painting for hundreds of years. He and his brother are doing thanjavur painting in Chennai.&lt;brHis paintings have been purchased by people from UK, USA, Japan, South Africa,Singapore, Malaysia, Nigeria, New Zealand, etc., In India, particularly in Tamil Nadu his paintings adore the pooja/Prayer rooms of cutstomer. Besides traditional Tanjavurpaintings, divine figures of God and Goddess have been created by as per "Samudrika Lakshnam". The speciality of these paintings is that the eyes look realistic as if they are looking at the viewers, wherever they are positioned.&lt;brTo his credit, his thanjavur paintings has been sold worldwide. And we are very proud to spread this very old, sacred art throughout the world. And to tell a few, his thanjavur paintings has been kept in London, US. He got award in "Kalai Vendan" for Best Traditional Thanjavur Painting Artis and "Seva Rathna" for Best Traditional Thanjavur Painting Artis with admirable Social worker. He is one of the honorable Doctorate in the world for Thanjavur Painting Artist, "he got the Doctor of Letters for his Brilliant Creation of Divine Paintings Especially Thanjavur School of Paintings" from The Ineternational Tamil University, Maryland, USA. with regards
context_page_description: Thanjavur painting is a classical South Indian painting style, which was inaugurated from the town of Thanjavur. The art form draws its immediate resources and inspiration from way back about 1600 AD, a period when the Nayakas of Thanjavur under the suzerainty of the Vijayanagara Rayas encouraged art—chiefly, classical dance and music—as well as literature, both in Telugu and Tamil and painting of chiefly Hindu religious subjects in temples. It is distinguished by its famous gold coating. However, it can safely be surmised that Thanjavur painting, as we know it now, originated in the Maratha court of Thanjavur. It has been recognized as a Geographical indication by the Government of India in 2007-08.
  Thanjavur paintings are characterised by rich 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.
context_section_description: Thanjavur painting is a classical South Indian painting style, which was inaugurated from the town of Thanjavur (anglicized as Tanjore). The art form draws its immediate resources and inspiration from way back about 1600 AD, a period when the Nayakas of Thanjavur under the suzerainty of the Vijayanagara Rayas encouraged art—chiefly, classical dance and music—as well as literature, both in Telugu and Tamil and painting of chiefly Hindu religious subjects in temples. It is distinguished by its famous gold coating. However, it can safely be surmised that Thanjavur painting, as we know it now, originated in the Maratha court of Thanjavur (1676–1855). It has been recognized as a Geographical indication by the Government of India in 2007-08.
  Thanjavur paintings are characterised by rich 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 visualised, 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.
  Thanjavur paintings are panel paintings done on wooden planks, and hence referred to as palagai padam (palagai = "wooden plank"; padam = "picture") in local parlance. In modern times, these paintings have become souvenirs for festive occasions in South India – colourful pieces of art to decorate walls, and collectors' items for art lovers, as also sadly sometimes, dime-a-dozen bric-a-bracs to be purchased from street corner practitioners.
caption: A Thanjavur painting of Krishna and Rukmani
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