The Colas c35.s2.13

c35.s2.13

The fragments of paintings in the Vijayālaya-Cōḷēśvaram are much faded. The two large ones are on the north wall of the *ardhamaṇḍapa*. The two large figures are those of Bhairava and Naṭarāja; the stiff pose of the figures indicates a late age when the mural art was decadent; but the fragments of plaster revealing a few pretty cherub-like faces on the south wall are strongly reminiscent of the Tanjore School, and these paintings may tentatively be assigned to the late Cōḷa period—late twelfth or early thirteenth centurȳ.