UNL Image & Multimedia Collections

- Phnom Penh; Silver Pagoda Complex, Reamker Murals
- The landscape, while accessory, is often treated with feeling. It is here also that we see the first signs of Western influence with the introduction of realism and the use of perspective. The rendering of indirect lighting in the landscape created...
- Landscape passage with atmospheric effects; the armies meet on the island of Lanka (Langka)
- Archivision
- Phnom Penh; Silver Pagoda Complex, Reamker Murals
- Because Cambodian painting is essentially didactic, it also conforms to strict iconographic conventions. They were intended to ensure that the characters depicted could be recognized by everyone and the story easily followed
- Buildings are traditionally depicted using an isometric projection and scale unrelated to the figures; mural shows weather damage
- Archivision
- Phnom Penh; Silver Pagoda Complex, Reamker Murals
- Because Cambodian painting is essentially didactic, it also conforms to strict iconographic conventions. They were intended to ensure that the characters depicted could be recognized by everyone and the story easily followed
- A supernatural being flies over the spires that resemble the Silver Pagoda itself
- Archivision
- Phnom Penh; Silver Pagoda Complex, Reamker Murals
- Because Cambodian painting is essentially didactic, it also conforms to strict iconographic conventions. They were intended to ensure that the characters depicted could be recognized by everyone and the story easily followed
- Battle against the army of demon king Ravana (Rabana in Khmer)
- Archivision
- Phnom Penh; Silver Pagoda Complex, Reamker Murals
- The landscape, while accessory, is often treated with feeling. It is here also that we see the first signs of Western influence with the introduction of realism and the use of perspective. The rendering of indirect lighting in the landscape created...
- Landscape passage with atmospheric effects; protagonists with chariot and white horses at center
- Archivision
- Phnom Penh; Silver Pagoda Complex, Reamker Murals
- Because Cambodian painting is essentially didactic, it also conforms to strict iconographic conventions. They were intended to ensure that the characters depicted could be recognized by everyone and the story easily followed
- Buildings are traditionally depicted using an isometric projection and scale unrelated to the figures
- Archivision
- Phnom Penh; Silver Pagoda Complex, Reamker Murals
- Because Cambodian painting is essentially didactic, it also conforms to strict iconographic conventions. They were intended to ensure that the characters depicted could be recognized by everyone and the story easily followed
- Area of the mural damaged by weather; apsaras (celestial dancers) in the sky
- Archivision
- Phnom Penh; Silver Pagoda Complex, Reamker Murals
- Because Cambodian painting is essentially didactic, it also conforms to strict iconographic conventions. They were intended to ensure that the characters depicted could be recognized by everyone and the story easily followed
- Buildings are traditionally depicted using an isometric projection and scale unrelated to the figures
- Archivision
- Phnom Penh; Silver Pagoda Complex, Reamker Murals
- Because Cambodian painting is essentially didactic, it also conforms to strict iconographic conventions. They were intended to ensure that the characters depicted could be recognized by everyone and the story easily followed
- Buildings are traditionally depicted using an isometric projection and scale unrelated to the figures
- Archivision
- Phnom Penh; Silver Pagoda Complex, Reamker Murals
- Because Cambodian painting is essentially didactic, it also conforms to strict iconographic conventions. They were intended to ensure that the characters depicted could be recognized by everyone and the story easily followed
- Buildings are traditionally depicted using an isometric projection and scale unrelated to the figures
- Archivision
- Phnom Penh; Silver Pagoda Complex, Reamker Murals
- Because Cambodian painting is essentially didactic, it also conforms to strict iconographic conventions. They were intended to ensure that the characters depicted could be recognized by everyone and the story easily followed
- Atmospheric landscape and simplified rendering of building
- Archivision
- Phnom Penh; Silver Pagoda Complex, Reamker Murals
- Because Cambodian painting is essentially didactic, it also conforms to strict iconographic conventions. They were intended to ensure that the characters depicted could be recognized by everyone and the story easily followed
- Buildings are traditionally depicted using an isometric projection and scale unrelated to the figures
- Archivision
- Phnom Penh; Silver Pagoda Complex, Reamker Murals
- Because Cambodian painting is essentially didactic, it also conforms to strict iconographic conventions. They were intended to ensure that the characters depicted could be recognized by everyone and the story easily followed
- Airavata, the three-headed white elephant who carries the Hindu god Indra meets with the monkey army of Hanuman and the monkey king Sukreep (Sugriva) at left
- Archivision
- Phnom Penh; Silver Pagoda Complex, Reamker Murals
- Because Cambodian painting is essentially didactic, it also conforms to strict iconographic conventions. They were intended to ensure that the characters depicted could be recognized by everyone and the story easily followed
- Buildings are traditionally depicted using an isometric projection and scale unrelated to the figures
- Archivision
- Phnom Penh; Silver Pagoda Complex, Reamker Murals
- Because Cambodian painting is essentially didactic, it also conforms to strict iconographic conventions. They were intended to ensure that the characters depicted could be recognized by everyone and the story easily followed
- Buildings are traditionally depicted using an isometric projection and scale unrelated to the figures
- Archivision
- Phnom Penh; Silver Pagoda Complex, Reamker Murals
- Because Cambodian painting is essentially didactic, it also conforms to strict iconographic conventions. They were intended to ensure that the characters depicted could be recognized by everyone and the story easily followed
- Buildings are traditionally depicted using an isometric projection and scale unrelated to the figures
- Archivision
- Phnom Penh; Silver Pagoda Complex, Reamker Murals
- Because Cambodian painting is essentially didactic, it also conforms to strict iconographic conventions. They were intended to ensure that the characters depicted could be recognized by everyone and the story easily followed
- Buildings are traditionally depicted using an isometric projection and scale unrelated to the figures
- Archivision
- Phnom Penh; Silver Pagoda Complex, Reamker Murals
- Because Cambodian painting is essentially didactic, it also conforms to strict iconographic conventions. They were intended to ensure that the characters depicted could be recognized by everyone and the story easily followed
- Buildings are traditionally depicted using an isometric projection and scale unrelated to the figures
- Archivision
- Phnom Penh; Silver Pagoda Complex, Reamker Murals
- Because Cambodian painting is essentially didactic, it also conforms to strict iconographic conventions. They were intended to ensure that the characters depicted could be recognized by everyone and the story easily followed
- One of the protagonists in a war chariot pulled by lions
- Archivision
- Phnom Penh; Silver Pagoda Complex, Reamker Murals
- Because Cambodian painting is essentially didactic, it also conforms to strict iconographic conventions. They were intended to ensure that the characters depicted could be recognized by everyone and the story easily followed
- Atmospheric landscape passage with weather damage; unidentified scene with blue bulls
- Archivision