| Publisher |
MANOHAR PUBLISHERS AND DISTRIBUTORS |
| Publication Year |
2003 |
| ISBN-13 |
9788173045325 |
| ISBN-10 |
8173045321 |
| Binding |
Hardcover |
| Number of Pages |
188 Pages |
| Language |
(English) |
| Dimensions (Cms) |
20.3 x 25.4 x 4.7 |
| Weight (grms) |
834 |
While the art and architecture of Vijayanagara is justly celebrated, the literature of the period is relatively unknown outside southern India, due to the lack of adequate translations from Kannada, Telugu and Tamil. This work brings together for the first time in English a selection from literary sources in medieval Kannada language. The texts date from the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries and were written both at the Vijayanagara capital and various lprovincial outposts of the empire by the most accomplished authors and peers of the day.
Anna L. Dallapiccola
Professor Anna L. Dallapiccola has a Ph.D in Indian Art History and a Habilitation (D.Litt.) from University of Heidelberg, Germany. She was Professor of Indian Art at the South Asia Institute of Heidelberg University from 1971 to 1995 and then appointed as Honorary Professor at Edinburgh University in 1991. She lectures at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. From 2000 to 2004 she was Visiting Professor at De Montfort University Leicester.
Among her latest publications are Catalogue of South Indian Paintings in the Collection of the British Museum (2010), The Great Platform at Vijayanagara (2010), Indian Painting: The Lesser Known Traditions (2011) and Kalamkari Temple Hangings, a study of the collection in the V&A (2015).
She has at present two concurrent research programmes in India, the first on the art of the Vijayanagara successor states and the second on the Virabhadra temple at Lepakshi.
Anna L. Dallapiccola
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