A Field Survey and Research on the Mural Paintings of the Brihadisvara Temple at Thaniavur in India

印度塔尼亚武尔布里哈迪斯瓦拉寺壁画实地考察与研究

基本信息

批准号：
17520085
负责人：
SADAKANE Keiji
金额：
$ 2.31万
依托单位：
Kyoto City University of Arts
依托单位国家：
日本
项目类别：
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
财政年份：
2005
资助国家：
日本
起止时间：
2005 至 2007
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-17520085/
关键词：
Art History Oriental History India Hinduism Mural Painting Temple Architecture

项目摘要

In ancient India, the secular art made progress mainly in the form of mural painting. Indian mural paintings, however, built up the intimate relationship with religions through the mediaeval period. Especially in the south India, mediaeval Hindu temples were generally adorned with mural paintings. Indian mediaeval art reached the stylistic zenith in every part of India toward the early eleventh century. The Brihadisvara Temple at Thanjavur, built at the beginning of the eleventh century, is representative of the mediaeval Hindu temple art. The mural paintings in the passageway surrounding the sanctuary of the temple show distinctly what the mediaeval south Indian paining accomplished. They possess two significant stylistic features. One is that they preserve various elements of the ancient mural paintings in respect of depictions of human figures as well as animal ones. For example, human and animal figures are represented in various stances and painted using the technique of shading. The other is that spacious surfaces of the walls are not dealt with in the unified and organic composition like that of the ancient times, but they are completely divided into a lot of strata or compartments. The latter is the most typical characteristic of the mediaeval mural painting in India. It may be safely said that it set the direction of development of the mediaeval south Indian mural painting after that time.

在古代印度，世俗艺术主要以壁画的形式进步。然而，在中世纪的时期，印度壁画绘画建立了与宗教的亲密关系。特别是在印度南部，中世纪的印度神庙通常装饰有壁画。印度中世纪的艺术在印度每个地区都到达了11世纪初的风格顶峰。在十一世纪初建造的塔加瓦尔（Thanjavur）的Brihadisvara庙代表了中世纪印度教寺庙艺术。圣殿圣所周围通道中的壁画绘画清楚地表明了中世纪的南印度人痛苦的成就。他们具有两个重要的风格特征。其中之一是，他们保留了古代壁画绘画的各种元素，即对人物的描绘和动物的描述。例如，人物和动物人物以各种姿态表示，并使用阴影技术绘制。另一个是，墙壁的宽敞表面没有像远古时代的统一和有机构图中处理，但它们完全分为许多地层或隔间。后者是印度中世纪壁画最典型的特征。可以肯定地说，在那段时间之后，它设定了中世纪南印度壁画的发展方向。