SRI VENKATESWARA INSTITUTE OF TRADITIONAL SCULPTURE AND ARCHITECTURE
CHITTOOR, Andhra Pradesh
The origin of sculpture is very ancient which is being represented by the pre Aryan Vedic culture in the Harappan and Mohanjadaro excavations. All the various body representations expressing emotional life of an individual, which is well defined in the ‘Angikabhinaya” by Bharatmuni were attempted at by the Iconographists of the same period by Viswakarma. The great treatises like Manasara, Mayamata, Samarangana Sutra dhara, Kasyapa silpasastra and others are other examples which are followed in t
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