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Temple At Tanjore - Tamil Nadu - William Hodges - Vintage Orientalist Art Painting of India - Canvas Prints

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William Hodges

William Hodges (28 October 1744 – 6 March 1797) was an English painter and is best known for the sketches and paintings of locations he visited on that voyage. Up until 1770 Europeans had no visual concept of India that was based on first hand observation by a European artists. This changed after 1770 when Professional painters began to visit the Subcontinent and look at the country and its peoples through European taste.

 

The first professional landscape artist to visit India was William Hodges. He was also the most widely travelled artist of the 18th Century having spent three years circumnavigating the world with Captain Cook from 1772-1775.

 

He visited Madras, Calcutta, Lucknow, Agra and Delhi - recording both the landscape but also the great Mughal monuments. His work is characterized by a keen observation of landscape forms, the Indian light and atmosphere and a sympathetic understanding of Indian people.

 

His pioneering work and his engravings done back in England in 1787 were to have a profound influence on many of the artists who followed.

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About Temple At Tanjore Tamil Nadu William Hodges Vintage Orientalist Art Painting of India
The Rajarajeshvara Temple is also known as the Brihadishvara Temple and is one of the greatest temples in southern India. It was built under the patronage of Rajaraja I of the Chola dynasty in AD1010. The vimana, or principal sanctuary, is surmounted by a tall pyramidal stone tower and stands in a large rectangular courtyard, entered on the east through two gateways or gopuras. This picture was used by Hodges in contrast to his view the Pagodas at Deogarh, which he saw as illustrating the early and the later stages of Indian architecture." (Source: British Library Board)This print was part of William Hodges' pioneering work "Select Views in India, Drawn on the Spot, in the Years 1780, 1781, 1782, and 1783, and Executed in Aquatinta, by William Hodges" on the architectural and picturesque wonders of India. He was the first professional landscape artist to visit India to meet the new demand for paintings of Indian scenery. His architectural subjects depicted many little-known Muslim tombs and mosques, temples, forts and palaces in northern India. Hodges' writing and illustrations are considered to be of seminal importance by both Indian and Western historians.
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