1. Hindu Art and Architecture

2. “The man who knows nothing of music, literature, or art is no better than a beast.”

3. Yoga and Art India’s oldest indigenous “science”
spiritual exercise leading to the beatific vision

4. Yoga and Artists give the craftsman his creative skill
inspire the artist, poet, and musician who sought spiritual enlightenment

5. The Art
Hindu/ Indian artists have celebrated/ immortalized the beauty of human bodies in bronze and stone for more than 7,000 yrs

6. Hindu Symbolsim

7. The Himalayas
- regarded as special revelation of divine beauty -seen as fitting shrine for all the gods

8. Philosophy of Art
Hindu philosophy recognizes the impossibility of human art capturing the form of God

9. Gods and deities
Are often portrayed in a blue tint color

10. Bhakti the moving spirit of great religious art
keeps Indian art alive (Movement)

11. Prominent Figures
in Hindu Art

12. Ganesha the Lord of success and destroyer of evils and obstacles
worshipped as the god of education, knowledge, wisdom and wealth
one of the five prime Hindu

14. Shiva The destroyer: The “Great God” of yogic practice
Visually represented as “King of Dance”

15. Shiva Outside the Cern Large Hadron Collider
The destroyer:
Visually represented as “King of Dance”

16. The Lotus
Even in earliest art, lotus is fashioned as a seat or as a pedestal on which divine or sacred beings rest in a sitting or standing posture Symbol of divinity of major Hindu gods
Brahma on the lotus flower which sprang from Vishnu’s naval
Cobra - Protectors

17. Snakes important images in Hindu art Sacred to Hindus
seen as protectors and often featured in Hindu art as wrapped around a god

18. Architecture

19. Overview Not meant for congregational worship
Concentrate on religious and spiritual
Made from rock
Intricately carved

20. Temple Architecture
Purpoeses
Religious
Astronomy
Sacred geometry

21. Indian Styles

22. Indian Styles Shrine is square at center
Stupa (Bell-shaped structure) on main shrine

23. Jagannath Temple
Lingaraja Temple
Rajarani Temple

24. Jagannath Temple
Lingaraja Temple
Rajarani Temple

25. Indian Styles

26. Chola - Brihdiswara Temple
Pallava – Shore Temple
Nayak – Rameswaram Temple
Pandya - Chidambaram

27. Jantar Mantar observatory
The first iron-cased rockets were developed in the 1780s by Tipu Sultan of Mysore who successfully used these rockets against the larger forces of the British East India Company during the Anglo-Mysore Wars. He crafted long iron tubes, filled them with gunpowder and fastened them to bamboo poles to create the predecessor of the modern rocket. With a range of about 2 km, these rockets were the best in the world at that time and caused as much fear and confusion as damage. Due to them, the British suffered one of their worst ever defeats in India at the hands of Tipu.
Between 1727 and 1734 Maharajah Jai Singh II of Jaipur constructed five astronomical observatories in west central India. The observatories, or "Jantar Mantars" as they are commonly known, incorporate multiple buildings of unique form, each with a specialized function for astronomical measurement

28. Jantar Mantar observatory
Between 1727 and 1734 Maharajah Jai Singh II of Jaipur constructed five astronomical observatories in west central India. The observatories, or "Jantar Mantars" as they are commonly known, incorporate multiple buildings of unique form, each with a specialized function for astronomical measurement

29. Jantar Mantar observatory