- Topic
- Topic
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Origins
- Also, Shiva temple
- c. 1004 - 1035 CE
- Khajuraho
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Structure
- Double crosses
- Concrete base
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Details
- Celestial beauties
- Lions
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Amorous couples
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Celebration of love
- Re. mituna couple
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Architectural pun
- Symbolic union with cosmos
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Ideal representation of female
- Auspicious
- Fertility
- Single images of deities
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Style
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Northern style
- Nagara
- Different materials have an effect on style
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In comparison to southern
- Organic
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Vertical emphasis
- Extremely high base
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More refined materials
- Highly detailed sculptures
- Temple structures more resembling of sculpture than architecture
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Maximized surfaces from extra corners
- Utitlized for statues
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Tendril scrolls / arabesques cut sharply and deeply into sandstone
- B/W drawing
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Sculptures
- Tall slim figures
- Elongated legs
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Exaggerated poses
- Twisted bodies
- Correspond with space