Tanjore Painting - Handcrafted Traditional Art | Rich Colors, Gold Foil Detailing, Iconic Religious Themes, Extensive Gesso Work

We are engaged in trading, distributing, exporting and supplying excellent quality Tanjore Painting to our valuable clients. Tanjore painting (Tamil: Thanjavur Oviyam) is a classical South Indian painting style, which was inaugurated from the town of Thanjavur(anglicized as Tanjore) and spread across the adjoining and geographically contiguous Tamil country. The art form draws its immediate resources and inspiration from way back about 1600 AD, a period when the Nayakas of Thanjavur under the suzerainty of the Vijayanagara Rayas encouraged arta chiefly, classical dance and musica as well as literature, both in Telugu and Tamil and painting of chiefly Hindu religious subjects in temples. However, it can safely be surmised that Thanjavur painting, as we know it now, originated in the Maratha court of Thanjavur (1676 - 1855).
Thanjavur paintings are characterised by rich, flat and vivid colors, simple iconic composition, glittering gold foils overlaid on delicate but extensive gesso work and inlay of glass beads and pieces or very rarely precious and semi-precious gems. In Thanjavur paintings one can see the influence of Deccani, Vijayanagar, Maratha and even European or Company styles of painting. Essentially serving as devotional icons, the subjects of most paintings are Hindu gods, goddesses, and saints.