The most — and perhaps, only — famous thing about Thanjavur is the Chola king Raja Raja Cholan’s magnum opus, the Brihadeeswara temple, known to locals simply as ‘Periya Kovil’ (Big ...

The traditional and ornate art of Thanjavur painting brings to you the talent and aesthetics of the artist. May 31, 2025 ...

Shiva and Parvati were sitting on mount Kailash where Shiva lives and he was giving a class – a lecture – to a number of sages who had come to take his darshan. And Parvati was sitting on his lap.

A historic Chola-era idol of Shiva and Parvati, stolen from a temple in India and sumggled into the United States by notorious Indian art dealer Subhash Kapoor, has been recovered from a ...

Around 2004, the stolen idol was delivered to Kapoor's former Madison Avenue gallery, Art of the Past. Kapoor displayed the Shiva and Parvati sculpture for sale and misrepresented the idol's true ...