Technical and Stylistic Studies of Hindu Murals in Kerala

我们在喀拉拉邦有现存的12世纪到19世纪的印度教壁画。喀拉拉邦印度教壁画的典型技法和风格在16世纪达到成熟。我们认为这是多方面的原因造成的。许多欧洲绘画作品被带到喀拉拉邦，喀拉拉邦特有的木雕风格也在那时完成。区域造型文化的充分发展和造型艺术的国际影响力可以认为创造了喀拉拉邦独特的壁画技法和风格。

We have extant examples of Hindu mural paintings from the 12th through the 19th century in Kerala. The typical technique and style of Kerala Hindu mural painting attained maturity in the 16th century. We believe that the cause for it was manifold. A lot of European paintings brought to Kerala and the wooden sculpture style proper to Kerala was completed then. The full growth of regional plastic culture and the international influence of plastic arts can be thought to have created the unique mural painting technique and style of Kerala.