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The mural painting in Vihara Nam Tam
Keywords :
| Site common name | Wat Phra That Lampang Luang |
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| Type of artwork | Painting |
| Sub district | Lampang Luang |
| District | Ko Kha |
| Province | Lampang |
| Region | North |
| Country | Thailand |
| Geographic Coordinates Decimal degree | Lat : 18.217398 Long : 99.389211 |
| Geographic Coordinates UTM | Zone : 47 Q Hemisphere : N E : 541153.42 N : 2014281.59 |
| Place of artwork | On the wooden wall around the Vihara Nam Tam. |
| History of production | No evidence of the original painting was found but from the art form, it can be compared to the Burmese art in the Nyongyan Dynasty in the late 22nd - 23rd Buddhist century. Therefore, this mural was estimated to be painted at the contemporary period. |
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| Production process | Dust paint on wood |
| Art | The style of painting in Nam Tam Vihara featured red, green, yellow, black and white, with the prominent people figures dressed in Burmese style, while the common villagers dressed in the folk Lanna and Burmese styles. The landscape paintings used the curve line to divide the picture. There are Lanna alphabet inscriptions on the story of Indra and Samavadee. There is a painting of Triphum story which is displayed as a pole in the middle of Indra's Prasat in heaven with the sun and the moon revolving around it. |
| School | Phayao |
| Key academic information | It is the oldest mural painting evidence in Lampang province. |
| Notice | Although the craftsmen who painted the murals at Vihara Nam Tam were Burmese craftsmen, the use of Lanna alphabets instead of the Burmese ones reflects that the person who sponsored the paint was likely to be from Lanna origin. |
| Period | Historical Period |
| Art period | Lanna |
| Age | Late 22nd Buddhist Century – Early 23rd Buddhist Century |
| Religion | Buddhism |
| Sect | Theravada |
| Religion and belief | Theravada |
| Related artwork | 1. The mural at Thilokakuru Cave, Sky city in Burma is an evidence of the Nyongyan dynasty painting that is comparable to the patterns of the murals at Nam Tam Vihara . 2. The murals in the main vihara of Wat Phra That Lampang Luang, Lampang province is an example of a painting by Burmese craftsmen but was painted in the later contemporary period of the Mandalay dynasty. It was likely painted in 1927, during the restoration of the main vihara. |
| Type of License | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND) |
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| Rights | Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre |
| Date of record creation | 2016-05-18 |
| Record creator | Rungroj Thamrungraeng |
| Bibliography | ภาณุพงษ์ เลาหสม. จิตรกรรมฝาผนังล้านนา. กรุงเทพฯ: เมืองโบราณ, 2541. ศักดิ์ชัย สายสิงห์. วัดพระธาตุลำปางหลวง. เอกสารประกอบการบูรณะ พระธาตุลำปางหลวง พ.ศ. 2555 โดยห้างหุ้นส่วนจำกัด รักษ์โบราณ 999 เสนอ สำนักศิลปากรที่ 7 น่าน กรมศิลปากร กระทรวงวัฒนธรรม. เฟื้อ หริพิทักษ์. “จดหมายจากลำปาง จิตรกรรมฝาผนังในวิหารน้ำแต้ม วัดพระธาตุลำปางหลวง” สังคมศาสตร์ปริทัศน์. 3, 11 (ธันวาคม 2508 – กุมภาพันธ์ 2539), 51 สันติ เล็กสุขุม. ศิลปะภาคเหนือ : หริภุญชัย – ล้านนา. พิมพ์ครั้งที่ 3. กรุงเทพฯ: เมืองโบราณ, 2555. |
