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SculptureWall Carved: Prasat at Prasat Sombopraikuk
The Prasat is built from bricks located within the square plan. There is the pillar attached to each corner of the Prasat as well as the Ruean Tat (Middle Part of the Prasat). There is only one entrance with three others are seen but clogged. The roof are made in the replica pattern of Ruen Tat stacked up in the style of Vimana of Suthern Indian Art. The Prasat is located on a flat ground with no stacking base.
SculptureLintel
Lintel is a piece of architecture found in Khmer art. It is always mounted on the entrance door frame. The Lintel in the picture belongs to the Prei Kmeng Art which leads to Kampong Phra Art. It is characterized by the curved line which is drawn in a single straight line in the center of the lintel with the picture of tokens appear in the center of the curve line. This style belong to the Prei Kmeng Art. However, the tokens have been transformed into a leaf pattern which is identical with the pattern at both ends of the Lintel. This leaf pattern is later found its fame in the Kampon Phra Art.
ArchitectureKyubyauk Gyi at Myinkaba
Temple of Early Pagan art is normally squat in shape. The windows here are closed by the screens which make the interior ambulatory path and the sanctum very dim. The short leafs at the pediment edge and the prominent sloping roofs are the characteristics of the period. Shikhara with the column of niches in the central offset bears the style similar to that of other temple of contemporaneous period, including Nagayon and Ananda.
ArchitectureKuangmu Daw
The most important element is the colossal hemispheric Aṇḍa, inspired from the same element of Ruvanveliseya at Anuradhpura. The triple base is very low comparing to the height of the whole stupa, incluenced from Sri Lankan styled stupa. The spire, including the square Harmikā and the rings of Chatravali, are surprisingly omitted from this stupa.
ArchitectureKuthodaw
Kuthodaw premise composes of the main stupa modelled after Shwezigon and the subsidiary smaller temples enshrining the inscriptions of Buddhist canons. These temples have been arranged into three groups, namely Vinaya Sutta and Abhidhamma.
ArchitecturePrasat Pre Rup
Similar to other Early Angkorian temples, Pre Rup is the brick temple on the top of the stepped-pyramidal platforms. However, the further development is noticeable from the multiplicity of the main temple from one to five in number. Below the platform are the long halls which are the precursor of the elongate connected gallery in the later period. These halls were presumably functioned as the lodges or the treasuries for the temple. In the front exists the rectangular platform, possible to be the base for the statue of Nandi which already lost.
ArchitectureCandi Tikus
Trowulan was the capital of Majapahit dynasty. There are a number of monuments in this city, including Candi Tikus(the sacred pond) and several gateways. These monuments are always in brick, different from normal stone temple of the Eastern Javanese period
ArchitectureKunung Kawi
Candi Gunung Kawi is the series of nine rock-cut temples on the cliff adjacent to the river, considered to be the best example of the rock-cut temple in Bali. Furthermore, these temples are the good examples of the traces of Eastern Javanese Art in Bali. As the roofs are decorated with series of miniature temples which are normally absent in Balinese towers, the towers at Gunung Kawi are datable to Eastern Javanese Art. The location of these temples, by the river, also sanctifies the river.
