Important Topics for Art and Culture for UPSC 2023
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- Categories Art and Culture, General Studies 1
- Date July 22, 2022
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Salient aspects of Art Forms, Literature, and Architecture from ancient to modern times
Topics for Art and Culture
- Art Form
- Literature
- Architecture
* Art Forms
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* Architecture (Art and Culture)
> Keshava temple at Somanathapur
The 13th-century Keshava temple also called “poetry in stone”, is getting a makeover ahead of the proposed visit of the UNESCO team to inspect the Hoysala monument nominated for inscription as a World Heritage Site.
The Chennakesava Temple, is a Vaishnava Hindu temple on the banks of River Kaveri at Somanathapura, Karnataka, India.
The temple was consecrated in 1258 CE by Somanatha Dandanayaka, a general of the Hoysala King Narasimha III.
It is located 38 kilometres (24 mi) east of Mysuru city
Hoysalas combined Vesara and Dravida styles and developed a new Hoysala style.
- Star shaped platform
- The jagati around the temple is the open pradakshinapatha.
- Polished pillar with a variety of designs.
- Elaborate carvings and beautifully carved madanika figures.
- Vimana(shikara) in pyramidical shape.
- Most of their temples are in Bhumija style. In this style, miniature shikhara is carved on the outer wall of the temple.
> Sannati
The Archaeological Survey of India has now taken up conservation work at this important Buddhist site near Kalaburagi.
- It is an ancient Buddhist site on the bank of the Bhima river near Kanaganahalli in the Kalaburagi district.
- Magnificent Maha Stupa, which was referred to as Adholoka Maha Chaitya (the Great Stupa of the netherworlds) in the inscriptions and,
- The stone portrait of Emperor Ashoka, surrounded by his queens and female attendants considered to be the only surviving image of the Mauryan Emperor which had the inscription ‘Raya Asoko’ in Brahmi on it.
> Thalaivetti Muniyappan temple
A recent Madras High Court order that Thalaivetti Muniyappan temple near Salem, where a local deity is worshiped as per Hindu rituals, will be treated as a Buddhist temple.
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