Thanjavur Painting

Opaque water color painting of Shiva’s attendant Adhikara Nandi, a youthful figure with a bull’s head. He holds some of Shiva’s attributes: in his upper right hand he carries the damaru (hourglass shaped drum) and in his upper left the mriga (gazelle), while his lower right hand is in abhaya and the lower left in […]

Gouache painting on paper from a portfolio of sixty-three paintings of deities and daily life. In Hinduism – Nandi is Lord Shiva’s mount. He is also praised as Nandikeshwara or Nandideva. He is white bull (Rishabha). The white-complexioned Nandi in his zoo-anthropomorphic (human) form stands on a low pedestal. He wears a crown, dhoti and