Mural Painting: Lepakshi Temple Paintings and Kerala Murals

Lepakshi Temple Paintings

  • Location – Anantapur district of Andhra Pradesh
  • These mural paintings were executed on Veerabhadra temple walls at Lepakshi.
  • Made during the Vijayanagara period.
  • Themes were based on Ramayana, Mahabharata and incarnations of Vishnu.
  • The paintings show a complete absence of primary colours, especially blue. 
  • They depict a decline in painting in terms of quality.

Kerala Murals

  • Kerala painters evolved a pictorial language and technique of their own while discriminately adopting certain stylistic elements from Nayaka and Vijayanagara schools.
  • The painters evolved a language taking cues from contemporary traditions, like Kathakali and kalam ezhuthu.
  • The artist seems to have also derived sources from oral traditions and local versions of the Ramayana and the Mahabharata for painted narration.
  • For Example – Dutch palace in Kochi, Krishnapuram palace in Kayamkulam and Padmanabhapuram palace.
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