South India under Vijayanagara: art and archaeology

This volume presents a comprehensive account of the Vijayanagara Empire and Hampi-Vijayanagara site through a study of archaeology, photography, painting, sculptures, inscriptions, coinage, conservation and heritage, and existing scholarship. INDICE: Preface and Acknowledgements; SECTION I: HAMPI-VIJAYANAGARA; 1.: Vijayanagara Research: A Template for Interdisciplinary Scholarship on Indiaby Carla Sinopoli; 2.: An Overview of Twenty-five Years of Archaeological Work at Hampi by M.S. Nagaraja Rao; 3.: The Hampi Archaeological Atlas Project byJohn M. Fritz; 4.: The Capital in Context: The Vijayanagara Metropolitan Survey by Kathleen D. Morrison; 5.: Scholarship and Discourse in Responsible Heritage Site Management, Case: Hampi by Nalini Thakur; 6.: Hampi World Heritage Area Management Authority and the Implementation of the Integrated Management Plan for Hampi: Processes at the Ground Level by B. Sarath Chandra; 7.: Public-Private Partnership in Conservation Projects at Hampi by Abha Narain Lambah; 8.: The Earliest Photographs of Hampi: Lessons to be Learned by George Michell; 9.: Inscriptions Related to Monuments at Vijayanagara by S. Rajasekhara; 10.: Sculptures on the Great Platform at Vijayanagara by Anna L. Dallapiccola; 11.:Retrieving the Chalukyan Past at Sixteenth Century Vijayanagara: The Stepped Tank in the Royal Centre by Phillip B. Wagoner; 12.: The Sacred Topography of Hampi-Vijayanagara by Anila Verghese; SECTION II: VIJAYANAGARA CITY AND EMPIRE; 13.: Power Relationships as Seen through Vijayanagara Era Temple Inscriptions by Alexandra Mack; 15.: Ramayana in Southern Indian Art: Themes and Variations by Anna L. Dallapiccola; 16.: The Chaturmukha Temples of Kanara: Architectural Assertions of Autonomy by John Henry Rice; 19.: Important Associations of Shaivite Ascetic Iconography between Srisailam, Hampi-Vijayanagara and Sringeri by Richard Shaw; 20.: In a Land of Kings: Donors, Elites and Temple Sculpture by Crispin Branfoot; 21.: Gandabherunda Images on Textiles and Monuments of South India by Brigitte Khan Majlis; 22.: Notes on Vijayanagara Painting by Anna L. Dallapiccola; 23.: Propaganda and Power: The Coinage of Vijayanagara Considered in Context by Barbara Mears;

• ISBN: 978-0-19-806861-7
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 392
• Fecha Publicación: 13/01/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés