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Ancient Mural paintings- പുരാതനമായ  ചുവര്‍ ചിത്രങ്ങള്‍ 

Ancient Mural paintings at Kottayam Cheriyapalli
Painting at Muttuchira  church

 

The Mural paintings remained as a noteworthy medium of open correspondence for more than a thousand years. Awesome cycles of religious stories were spread over the dividers of ministerial structures as Christianity got to be state religion in west and at a comparable period in east. Pope Gregory the Great (590-604) is said to have energized the pictographic structures as the thoughts passed on are all around transferrable. For quite a while in history pictures, engravings cooperated as an illustrative advantageous interaction of Christianity. 

We can discover many varieties of mural paintings across Kerala. Kerala painting sketches are the frescos portraying mythology and legends, which are drawn on the dividers of sanctuaries and temples in South India, basically in Kerala. We can see mural painting  in Ancient Churchess, temples and palaces .Most of the compositions are done between the 9th to 12th centuries, during that time these sorts of fine arts had much acknowledgement over the province.Many Kerala Churches have exceptionally old paintings to enliven their walls. A large portion of these are done in Kerala style. There are popular Altar and Madhbaha enrichments in Ollur, Kanjoor, Kottayam, Alangad, Koratty, Chengannur, Akaparambu, Paliakkara, Pazhuvil, Thumpamon, Palai, Muttuchira,Kaduthuruthy and Mulanthuruthy.

 

The huge Angamaly paintings creations of Hell and the Last Judgment are unique commitments of Kerala to the world painting legacy. The wall painting artistic creations of Cheppad, Piravam, Paliakkara, Angamaly,Akaparambu, Kanjoor, Ollur, Pazhaji and Vechoor merit world acknowledgment for their masterful brilliance and ability of execution.The two frescoes sketches at Kanjoor Church demonstrates the celebration of the failure of Tippu's raiding armed force when it tried to loot the Church and congregation in 1790

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