Technique of the painting process in the rock-cut temples at Badami

Paramasivan, S.

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“…He identified the white pigments in Vijayalaya Cholisvaram, Tamil Nadu to be from lime, black from wood charcoal, yellow from yellow ochre, red from red ochre, green from green ochre, and bluish-greenfrom a mixture of terreverte and ultramarine [64]. Similarly, pigments such as yellow ochre, red ochre, carbon, lime, terreverte were also found at Badami in Karnataka and Kanchi Kailasanathar temple in Chennai [65,66]. Identified pigments in Bagh cave were red ochre, yellow ochre, lapis lazuli, terreverte, carbon, and lime [60].…”

Section: Discussion On Earth Pigments Used In India's Wall Paintingsmentioning

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A Review on Historical Earth Pigments Used in India’s Wall Paintings

Sharma

Singh²

2021

Heritage

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Iron-containing earth minerals of various hues were the earliest pigments of the prehistoric artists who dwelled in caves. Being a prominent part of human expression through art, nature-derived pigments have been used in continuum through ages until now. Studies reveal that the primitive artist stored or used his pigments as color cakes made out of skin or reeds. Although records to help understand the technical details of Indian painting in the early periodare scanty, there is a certain amount of material from which some idea may be gained regarding the methods used by the artists to obtain their results. Considering Indian wall paintings, the most widely used earth pigments include red, yellow, and green ochres, making it fairly easy for the modern era scientific conservators and researchers to study them. The present knowledge on material sources given in the literature is limited and deficient as of now, hence the present work attempts to elucidate the range of earth pigments encountered in Indian wall paintings and the scientific studies and characterization by analytical techniques that form the knowledge background on the topic. Studies leadingto well-founded knowledge on pigments can contribute towards the safeguarding of Indian cultural heritage as well as spread awareness among conservators, restorers, and scholars.

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“…Calcium sulfate is an impurity in the lime, according to him. Calcite and gypsum both were used either as white pigments or ground in many rock and cave paintings of India [64][65][66][67][68][69]. Through his researchSingh has identified calcite as the white pigment used at the Ajanta and Ellora paintings [70,71].…”

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A Review on Historical Earth Pigments Used in India’s Wall Paintings

Sharma

Singh²

2021

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Transformative Spaces: Dr. S. Paramasivan and Conservation Science in India in the Early Twentieth Century

Balachandran¹

2018

Studies in Conservation

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A Review on Organic Additives Used in Historic Indian Murals

DIGHE,

SINGH

2024

Int J Conserv Sci

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The scientific identification of organic additives in plaster and mortars has become an appropriate principle in the preparation of compatible repair material. Besides the need to characterise inorganic components, the conservation of mural art is facilitated by the unabridged documentation of organic components particularly mixed in ancient decorative mud/lime plasters support. The review addresses the influence of organic additives in the historic artworks and analytical methods used for their investigation. The paper has considered, the various plant-based organic additives recommended by ancient Indian texts like the Vishnudharmottara purana, Samaranga sutradhara, Silparatna etc., which have been documented and reported. With regard to the mentioned historical texts, plant-based products such as fermented juice, gum, fibres, straw, husk, resin etc., were used as organic additives for the preparation of wall plaster which provides disparate attributes to the plaster thus making it crack free, durable, antioxidant, antibacterial and insect-resistant. Furthermore, the recently reported destructive and non-destructive characterisation techniques based on chromatography, spectroscopy, ionization, and microscopy have also been described here. The mentioned techniques contribute as a fundamental tool to identify proteins, polysaccharides, fatty acids, resinous materials, starch, plant product etc., extracted from the mud/lime plasters and mortars.

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Technique of the painting process in the rock-cut temples at Badami

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A Review on Historical Earth Pigments Used in India’s Wall Paintings

A Review on Historical Earth Pigments Used in India’s Wall Paintings

Transformative Spaces: Dr. S. Paramasivan and Conservation Science in India in the Early Twentieth Century

A Review on Organic Additives Used in Historic Indian Murals

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