Portrait Sculpture In South India

About the Book:-In bringing together from varied sources evidences and examples of Indian portrait sculpture, in part hitherto unpublished, the author has made a very notable contribution to our knowledge of Indian art in one of its more special applications, and consequently as a whole. The lack of interest in the study of portraiture in stone and metal prompted the author to pen this book, the character of this work is largely delimited by importance to the specimens that been inscriptions or are referred to in epigraphically. It is to be hoped that the reception accorded to this study will encourage him to pursue the study in this or other fields; for the field open to research is very large, and the number of students all too small. There can be no possible doubt that throughout the period in which stone sculpture was produced, and probably still earlier when only impermanent materials were employed, images of donors were set up in connection with their foundations; indeed, for a very much earlier period we have the evidence of undoubted portrait figures in stone, excavated at Mohenjo Daro, though we do not know what was their precise cultural significance. The book contains 11 chapters and 34 illustrations to make it a readable informative discourse. About the Author:-Thirukannangudi G. Aravamuthan was an Indian archaeologist and numismatist. He was born in 1890 in a village near Thirukannangudi, in the Nagapattinam district of the erstwhile Madras Presidency of British India (in the present-day Indian State of Tamil Nadu). He completed his postgraduate studies, first in English, then in law before doing in various jobs such as proofreading for the newspaper, The Hindu, appraiser of diamonds for a jeweller, English teacher at Pachaiyappa's College and law practise in the Madras High Court. His interest however lay in history. He served as the curator of Chennai's Government Museum for some time. The Title 'Portrait Sculpture In South India written/authored/edited by T. G. Aravamuthan', published in the year 2020. The ISBN 9788121246231 is assigned to the Paperback version of this title. This book has total of pp. 156 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Gyan Publishing House. This Book is in English. The subject of this book is . Size of the book is 13.34 x 21.59 cms Vol:-