Artist: Unknown
Title: door guardian on the Durga Shrine
Material: Granite outcroping
Site: Mamallapuram, Tamil Nadu, India
Current Location:
Period/Date: Ca. 7th century, under the Pallava dynasty
Iconography/Iconology:
Stylistic Comments: Simple architectural features with plain niches
and large figures is characteristic of Pallava art (Huntington, AOAI,
298). In a typically Pallava manner,the slender figure stands frontally
with narrow tapered limbs. As is evident in this detail, despite the lack
of sculptural details, Pallava art is fluid and graceful.
Huntington, Susan L.The Art of Ancient India, New
york, Tokyo: Weather Hill, 1985.
