#temple architecture

[huariqueje]

Pathenon - John Miller

British , 1931-2002

Oil on canvas , 61 x 64 cm. 23.82 x 25 in.

[yebreed]

Ancestral Hall of the Tiger Talisman in Fujian

One of those architectural gems that are scattered throughout the Chinese countryside: the Ancestral Hall of the Tiger Talisman (虎符祖殿) aka Huyan Ancestral Hall (虎岩祖殿) or Hufuyan (虎符岩) in Nanfeng (南豐村), Xinqiao, Fujian.

Built in the Song dynasty and rebuilt in the 16th year of Jiajing in the Ming dynasty (1537), the complex covers an area of about 1800 square meters. This temple is dedicated to the Taoist Leifa deity Zhang Shengjun (張聖君), the Master of Five Thunders. The papers with talismanic inscriptions are stuck under the ceiling.

Photo: ©劉江嶺

[classic-asian-art]

There's a tiny label in the upper right corner of this print that tells a second story. It says "Au Printemps" - a Parisian department store - and a price: 0 fr. 95. Less than one franc. That's what Hiroshige's vision cost a Parisian shopper in the late nineteenth century. Ando Hiroshige's "8 Views of the Kanazawa Temple" - from his Hundred Famous Views of the Provinces series - traveled from an Edo workshop to a department store shelf in Paris, priced somewhere between a bar of soap and a ribbon. Japonisme wasn't just an aesthetic movement; it was a retail event. Prints like these arrived in France by the thousands, sometimes as coveted collectibles, sometimes wrapped around exported ceramics as packing material. That zigzag staircase cutting diagonally up a sheer cliff, tiny figures visible near the base, deep Prussian blue bleeding into blue-green pines. The architecture glows pale against dark rock. Hiroshige died in 1858; decades later, his prints were still sold in Paris for pocket change. The sticker outlasted him. The department store closed. The temple endures. Quelle: meisterdrucke.com

[kaalbela]

Mural at Parashnath Jain Temple, Kolkata.

[zlatokryletz]

The sense of joy (and colour, but of course)🎨🌞

[noosphe-re]

Angkor Wat, Cambodia

[sunnyyang1012]

[evydraws]

Two years ago, we went to Hyangiram Temple near Yeosu, South Korea. I took SO MANY pictures that day because the weather was nice and, honestly, I needed a breather after all those stairs, since Hyangiram is built into a steep mountainside. I’ve since used these for background reference in a variety of my art, and finally got around to collecting them all in portion-sized ZIP folders for downloading. You can find them here if you ever need Korean temple architecture references, or tortoise statues galore. The image files are quite large, so it’s easy to zoom in on patterns and wood carvings, too.