Tamil Heritage Trust Monthly Heritage Talk, Dr Kumud Kanitkar speaks on 'Evolution of Iconography in Maharashtra'.
Saturday, August 7, 2021, 5.30 pm IST
Focusing on the 5th to 12th centuries CE, Dr Kanitkar will take us on a
journey of the history of religious thought in different eras and
regions of Maharashtra.
She will showcase some rare sculptures from many temples, beginning with
fifth century Vakatakas in Ramtek (Vidarbha region), loose sculptures
from Elephanta, Sopara, Coastal Konkan, and select images from
structural temples like Markandi, Ambarnath, Aundha, Anwa and
Bhuleshvara. Along with social history, she will provide us an
opportunity to appreciate the art, the different styles and outstanding
skills of the unknown artists who created these masterpieces.
Talk in English.
Dr Kumud Kanitkar is an independent researcher in Indology, with a focus
on medieval temples in Maharashtra. Her 2013 book, “Ambarnath
Shivalaya : A monograph on the temple of Siva at Ambarnath”, was awarded
“Ikuo Hirayama” prize-2013 by The Institut de France, Academie des
Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Paris. She has also written a bilingual
book on the Bhuleshvar Temple near Yavat. She has published numerous
articles in research journals, presented papers at seminars and
delivered lectures on various aspects of medieval temples. Dr Kanitkar
holds a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Massachusetts,
Amherst. She was a post-doctoral research fellow at the University of
Illinois, at Chicago. She retired as Professor of Chemistry in 2004. She
has a wide range of interests – she is a numismatist and a
prize-winning philatelist as well.
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