Wall Calendar

A long, vertically rectangular calendar that has four pages, and a cover page, with each page containing three months side-by-side on the lower portion and an image on the upper portion. Calendar is in the year 1993 in English in black with Sundays in blue. Images include the following: 'Goddess Gajalaks', 'Lord Rama's coronation', 'Lord Krishna', and 'Lord Nataraja'. The cover page has a brown and white image of three figures and reads the following: 'The Canvases of / THANJAVUR / If ever Art has ardently wooed Beauty, nowhere is it more evident than in the paintings of Thanjavur. Every creation is truly a celebration of the beautiful. Rich, full bodied colours vie with exquisite filigree / work to overwhelm the eye. The themes are epic: drawn from the Markandeya Purana, Cheer-Haran and Krishna Leela among others. And rendered with an elaborate resplendence distinctive to this / school of art. / Oddly enough, Thanjavur wasn't the birthplace of this art form. It originated in China. Artists from Mysore learnt the technique from the Chinese and migrated to Thanjavur. The paintings are usually done / in tempera with several layers of paint daubed on for richness of effect.' There is a metal support folded over the top edge and a flat braided pale blue fibre loop attached at the top back centre.