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Kerala Murals – A Brief History

One could say that the tradition of painting on walls began in Kerala with the pre-historic rock paintings found in the Anjanad Valley of Idukki district. Archaeologists presume that these paintings belong to different periods from the upper Paleolithic period to the Early historic period. Rock engravings dating to the Mesolithic period have also been discovered in two regions of Kerala, at Edakkal in Wayanad and at Perimkadavila in Thiruvananthapuram […]

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Greetings and thanks for coming by. This site aspires to be a source of information on the magnificent art of the Kerala temple murals, and also to be a gallery for the mural artist Naveen Bhaskar. The site is freshly minted at this time, so please bear with us during the construction phase. And the reason we’ve chosen the web-log platform for this site is to invite you to comment, […]