High Middle Ages · South Asia · Culture
1034
Chola bronze casting reaches its zenith
1034
Tamil artisans in the Chola heartland perfected the lost-wax technique for casting bronze images of Hindu deities, producing figures of Shiva Nataraja in his cosmic dance that remain among the supreme achievements of Indian art. The bronzes combined spiritual intensity with anatomical grace, each figure a meditation on divine movement frozen in gleaming metal.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.