Architecture and art of southern India
Subtitle: Vijayanagara and the successor states
By: George Michell.
Series: The new Cambridge history of India ;; I, 6
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 302
Subjects: Art, Indic -- India, South; Art, Hindu -- India, South
Description: George Michell provides a pioneering and richly illustrated introduction to the architecture, sculpture and painting of Southern India under the Vijayanagara empire and the states that succeeded it. This period, encompassing some four hundred years, from the fourteenth to the eighteenth century, was endowed with an abundance of religious and royal monuments which remain as testimonies to the history and ideology behind their evolution.

The author evaluates the legacy of this artistic heritage, describing and illustrating buildings, sculptures and paintings that have never been published before. In a previously neglected area of art history, the author presents an original and much-needed reassessment.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-294) and index.