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Description: | An albumen print by Richard Banner Oakeley showing part of the temple at Halebid in Karnataka. Halebid (ancient Dwarasamudra), a small town in the Hassan district, was once the capital of the Hoysala dynasty of the southern Deccan which flourished from about 1100-1350 AD. Invasions by the Delhi Sultanate in the 14th century led to its decline. The Hoysalas were avid temple builders and the site is renowned for the remnants of architecture and sculpture fashioned out of the chloritic schist in the region. The most famous monument here is the twelfth-century Hoysaleswara temple dedicated to Shiva, which was built for an official of Vishnuvardhana (reigned 1108-42). It is an exemplar of the lavish Hoysala style and is encrusted with continuous bands of sculpture, unsurpassed in its detail and vibrancy. The temple is two-shrined and built on a raised platform to a star-plan. This photograph illustrates many of the features of the temple: the flat roof lacking a superstructure, the panels of half-lifesize deities, the successive bands of friezes on the basement, the miniature shrine with its banded and faceted pillars and perforated screens and projecting eaves. | License: | http://www.bl.uk/services/copy/permission.html | Rights holder: | British Library | Subjects: | Temples Sculpture | Source: | Collect Britain | Creator: | Oakeley, Richard Banner | Identifier: | http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personal... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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