Thanjavur painting

it's one of the major forms of Indian classical painting dating back to about 1600 AD.

it’s one of the major forms of Indian classical painting dating back to about 1600 AD. These paintings are characterized by their surface richness with bright colors, simple iconic compositions, glittering gold foils and inlays of glass bead and semi-precious gems.
She gave birth two centuries later, at the school of painting known as “Mysore”. 

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At the Ashtanga Yoga Institute, these words don't stay on the page: they are lived, breath after breath. We have been transmitting traditional Ashtanga in Brussels for over fifty years, in the lineage of Sri K. Pattabhi Jois — each posture adjusted individually, even in a group class. Here, you don't read yoga: you practise it, guided.

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