National Art Gallery description and photos - India: Chennai (Madras) (Topic)

National Art Gallery description and photos - India: Chennai (Madras). Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photographs and a map showing the nearest significant objects. The title in English is National Art Gallery.

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National Art Gallery of “the most Indian city in the world” Madras (Chennai) is a kind of center of the cultural life of this city. It contains a large collection of sculptures and paintings created by Indian and British artists of different times.

The building that currently houses the gallery was built in 1907 and it was originally planned that there will be a Memorial Victoria and the Technical Institute, but in 1951 it was turned into an Art Gallery. It itself is a work of art of amazing beauty - built of red sandstone in the Indo-Saracenic style and abounds in decorative elements and ornaments in the form of turrets, domes, carved borders, stucco moldings, columns and arches.

The gallery presents a rich collection of bronze statues dating from the X-XIII centuries, paintings from the times of the Great Mughals (XVI-XVIII centuries), as well as a variety of handicrafts: jewelry, toys created by Indian craftsmen of the XI-XII centuries. In general, the gallery is divided into numismatic, geological, anthropological, botanical and zoological sections.

In the section dedicated to bronze sculptures, one can see wonderful figurines depicting the dancing god Shiva and his wife, the goddess Parvati, as well as and Krishna in various forms described in myths. Some of these exhibits are truly valuable and unique. As well as the engravings presented in the gallery by Briton Thomas Daniels, which allow the viewer to look at India from the inside.

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