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PaintingThe mural painting in Vihara Nam Tam
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.
SculpturePhra Chao Kaeng Kom
This Buddha image sit in a half-lotus seat and shows subduing mara posture. It has a square face, eyes looked straight, thick lips, stacked lips, hairline, small knot hairs, high flame halo, streaky ends large sanghati reaching belly, right hand placed at the center of the shin, unequal length fingers, thumb that separate from other fingers and prominent shin.
SculpturePhra Chao Kao Tue
This Buddha image sits on a half-lotus seat on a neat base displaying the Subduing Mara posture. It has an oval face, small knotted hairs, high ushnisha, high flaming halo, narrowed eyes looking downward, mouth slightly parted, knot jaw, symmetrical body, oblique robe, and large split ends centipede fang shaped sanghati reaching belly.
SculpturePhra Chao Lantong
This Buddha image is seated in the full-lotus seat on a supine lotus base with large petals and lotus stamens. It displays the Subduing Mara posture. It has a small oval face, small knotted hairs, flaming halo, narrow forehead, little mouth and the groove on the sides with a delicate body and large split ends centipede fang shaped sangha. It was enshrined within Ku Prasart.
SculptureThe Ku Phra Chao Lan Tong
The Ku Phra Chao Lan Tong has a base consisting of two lotus bases overlapping in the Yok Gej plan without Look Kaew Ok Kai. The bottom was added to decorate the Lanna stucco pattern, including flowers, leaves, and animal pictures inserted. Ruen That is a square room with three corners on each side. There is a Yok Gej in two corner arch, and each corner has a decorative pattern. Ruen That has a lotus base at the bottom and a lotus tiara on the top. There is a Phra Chao Lan Tong house inside with f a line angel’s decoration in the arch. Ruen That is a combination of a stacked floor and sloping roofs, which are popular styles in Lanna art.
ArchitectureThat Luang
The huge mound in the center seems to be the most ancient element of the Stupa. After some renovations, the top element and the subsidiary Stupas were added. These subsidiary Stupas seem to be connected with either the perfections of the Buddha (Paramita or Baramee) or the Tamavimsa paradise. This Stupa was entitled as Lokachulamani, imitating the name of the stupa in the paradise inside which the hairy relics was enshrined, suggests that the city is comparable to the heaven and the king himself is comparable to Indra, the lord of deities.
ArchitectureMaha That
This stupa comprises the square Lanna-fashioned broad bases supporting the multi-angled body, the series of sloping roofs in octagonal plan and the small bell-shaped spire. The style of this stupa is closely similar to that of Lanna Stupa in 15th-16th century, such as the Stupa at Wat Lokmoli which was built for containing the mortal remain of King Muang Ketklao. However, the architectural details of Wat Mahathat Stupa is slightly different from those of Lanna Stupa. These differences suggest the later renovations.
ArchitectureWat Apai Stupa
This stupa is hugely influenced by the bell-shaped stupa in Lanna art in many ways. The lotus base is redented and has wide middle plain element. The base supporting the bell-shaped element is in the round plan changing from the sloping mouldings in Lanna art. Also, the bell-shaped element is small. However, this stupa was not built in the same period with Muang Rai dynasty, but was built later around the 24th century BE. The dating was based on the fact that the stupa is small and the lotus has changed a lot from the Lanna art.
