History of Orissa from the Earliest Times to the British Period v2.c47.112

v2.c47.112

In the first place, it is extremely difficult to appraise the art of Konarak, because it is isolated and very few specimens of this period have been discovered in Orissa. In the second place, it has to be admitted that after the hideous plastic art of the Jagannātha temple at Puri there was a distinct artistic renaissance in the middle of the 13th century. We can not call the art of Konarak anything else but the product of a renaissance movement in the 13th century. In the third place, there is a break in the continuity of Orissan plastic activity for nearly a couple of centuries after the death of Narasiṁha I, and the next step is reached in the middle of the 15th century, when the Bhogamaṇḍapa of the temple of Jagannātha at Puri was built.