Add to ORKGPart of Chola layer lately revealed, the most important series surviving from South India. Deal with the Saivite religion. Some of the finest panels illustrate the life of Sundaramurti, poet-saint. Siva himself frequently represented as Nataraja, Rajaraja's favourite form of the deity, or as Tripurantaka, the latter a large-scale battle scene. The technique of the Tanjore wall paintings is found nowhere else in India, not even in the South. The mineral colours, a fairly extensive palette, were applied as true fresco on the damp plaster. The joints in the work are not visible and there seem to be few signs of retouching in fresco secco. The contours are drawn in light red occasionally reinforced with black. The line is tense and controlled, ...
