{"id":6850,"date":"2008-05-29T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-29T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2008\/05\/29\/a-project-to-conserve-400-year-old-paintings-in-siva-temple\/"},"modified":"2008-05-29T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-29T12:00:00","slug":"a-project-to-conserve-400-year-old-paintings-in-siva-temple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2008\/05\/29\/a-project-to-conserve-400-year-old-paintings-in-siva-temple\/","title":{"rendered":"A Project to Conserve 400-year-old Paintings in Siva Temple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.hindu.com\/2008\/05\/23\/stories\/2008052360942600.htm\">www.hindu.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">CHENNAI, May 23, 2008: An ambitious project to conserve more than 200 ancient<br \/>paintings in the Siva temple at Kalakkad in Tamil Nadu&#8217;s Tirunelveli district is to be undertaken soon by the REACH Foundation, a non-governmental organization.<\/p>\n<p>The paintings on the inner walls of each of the nine tiers of the temple&#8217;s gopurams are about 400 years old and resemble those of the Vijayanagara and Nayaka school of the 16th\/17th century CE. The initiative will also strengthen the 185-foot tall gopuram to stop seepage of rainwater and mend most of the 1,500 stucco figures that adorn it on the outside.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The movements of the art on these murals is so superb that they look like modern techniques,&#8221; Dr. Satyamurthy said. They have an influence of Chola school of murals. These masterpieces provide a wealth of information on contemporary life in terms of costumes and ornaments worn by kings and commoners, hair style, musical instruments, and so on.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>www.hindu.com CHENNAI, May 23, 2008: An ambitious project to conserve more than 200 ancientpaintings in the Siva temple at Kalakkad,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}