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c. 1050 CE · culture religion knowledge

Chola Bronze Casting Reaches a Classical Phase

Lost-wax bronze icons produced in the Chola world became among the most celebrated forms of south Indian sacred art.

Chola bronze sculpture of Shiva as Nataraja at the Metropolitan Museum of Art — Representative surviving Chola bronze. Use to illustrate the bronze-casting tradition, not as evidence for a single exact year around 1050. · Credit: Kesava Mallela (User:Kaysov) · License: CC BY-SA 2.5

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